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Special Forums Cybersecurity is open source more secure ? Post 302331526 by Neo on Monday 6th of July 2009 12:38:25 PM
Old 07-06-2009
I would also like to add that, at least for me personally and speaking in sweeping generalities which I don't like to do; I feel less secure with "closed code" than "open code".

For me, I can easily trust what I can see. I can search open code more easily (and look for problems) than I can search a binary or encrypted code like encrypted PHP (which I cannot search at all).

Recently, I refused to install encrypted PHP on a web site for that exact reason. I do not trust code I cannot see and see no reason to install encrypted PHP code when I can find open alternatives.

As I mentioned before, I don't normally like to respond to generalizations without context, so I am simply providing my personal opinion, and that is that I (my personal opinion) feel more secure when I can examine the code, grep it, search it, add debug statements, etc.
 

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CLASSKIT_METHOD_ADD(3)							 1						    CLASSKIT_METHOD_ADD(3)

classkit_method_add - Dynamically adds a new method to a given class

SYNOPSIS
bool classkit_method_add (string $classname, string $methodname, string $args, string $code, [int $flags = CLASSKIT_ACC_PUBLIC]) DESCRIPTION
Warning This function is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this function, its name, and surrounding documentation may change without notice in a future release of PHP. This function should be used at your own risk. PARAMETERS
o $classname - The class to which this method will be added o $methodname - The name of the method to add o $args - Comma-delimited list of arguments for the newly-created method o $code - The code to be evaluated when $methodname is called o $flags - The type of method to create, can be CLASSKIT_ACC_PUBLIC, CLASSKIT_ACC_PROTECTED or CLASSKIT_ACC_PRIVATE Note This parameter is only used as of PHP 5, because, prior to this, all methods were public. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 classkit_method_add(3) example <?php class Example { function foo() { echo "foo! "; } } // create an Example object $e = new Example(); // Add a new public method classkit_method_add( 'Example', 'add', '$num1, $num2', 'return $num1 + $num2;', CLASSKIT_ACC_PUBLIC ); // add 12 + 4 echo $e->add(12, 4); ?> The above example will output: 16 SEE ALSO
classkit_method_copy(3), classkit_method_redefine(3), classkit_method_remove(3), classkit_method_rename(3), create_function(3). PHP Documentation Group CLASSKIT_METHOD_ADD(3)
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