PHP Firewall

Posted on November 2, 2007
Filed Under Uncategorized | | Written by Gary Reid

I’m not a great fan of frameworks, Derek Sivers said in his article 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after two years on rails…

…it’s like trying to turn a train into a boat. Itâ€™s do-able with a lot of glue.

I think this applies to most frameworks not just RoR. Thankfully we only spent around 6 months toying with RoR before placing it in the bin. Zend however have developed a PHP framework that has given birth to a rather interesting project - Inspekt.

Inspekt acts as a sort of ‘firewall’ API between user input and the rest of the application. It takes PHP superglobal arrays, encapsulates their data in an “cage” object, and destroys the original superglobal.