It is not usually my custom to comment negatively or nitpick on other people's articles in magazines, especially not in magazines I have written for. This time however, I really must raise my voice to point out a couple of (well, actually a
lot of) issues in an article about SQL injection in the current (October/November) issue of the german "PHP Magazin". I stumbled upon this when Pelle Boese of
Mobile SEO fame told me about it.
As a couple of you should still remember, I wrote for that magazine until about one and a half years ago. I stopped writing for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, my shift towards Grid computing, my master's thesis and work took too much time. However, the, let's say, lean editorial process always kinda weirded me out. Mostly, manuscripts were printed as written, with no editorial changes at all. This is very trusting, but sometimes leads to fuck-ups like the one below.