Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/25/06 10:47

TheTeapot wrote:
> I have been using PHP for several years now, but I have been given a
> project at my High School which has recently set up a web server, which
> I would love to use PHP with (and Smarty, but that's a different
> matter).
>
> The only problem is that I need to convince the Head Teacher of
> Computing that it's a good idea to install PHP. His main concern is
> that a student will be able to download a script off the Internet and
> use it to look at other user's documents, steal passwords, etc..
>
> Any ideas as to what I can tell him?
>

If the other students can upload to the server, sure they can, unless
your teacher knows how to set permissions properly (which it sounds like
he doesn't). But in that case there probably are other programming
languages on the system the person could use.

And if others don't have upload capability, there's no problem as long
as you design the site properly.

The bottom line is - without a programming language you'll be stuck with
static pages. And if you want/need dynamic pages, you need *some*
programming language. And in many cases PHP is a good solution.

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