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Comment by plq | Hacker News Reader

me too, i like php. it's a decent templating language with some very advanced features. it even supports namespaces!

It's an XSS-prone templating language, as the default correct syntax for outputting variables is:

     <?php echo htmlspecialchars($value, ENT_QUOTES);?>

which is far from encouraging safe best practices.

PHP namespaces aren't any better: http://pornel.net/phpns

Actually, you should also always indicate the character encoding, for reasons I explain here:

http://shiflett.org/blog/2005/dec/google-xss-example

Yes, declaration is necessary, but not in the htmlspecialchars() call if you're using ASCII-superset encoding (and you really should declare UTF-8, never UTF-7).

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