<font color="#333333"><font size="4"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">There are a lot of current themes in the repository that are using fopen.  See this search:</font></font></font><div><font color="#333333"><font size="4"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>

</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><font size="4"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=fopen+site:http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/">http://www.google.com/search?q=fopen+site:http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/</a><br>

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<p style="margin:0; "><a href="http://c3mdigital.com"><img style="width: 202px; height: 77px;" src="http://c3mdigital.com/images/emailsig.jpg" alt="C3MDigital.com"></a></p></div><a href="http://facebook.com/c3mdigital" style="text-decoration: underline"><img width="16" height="16" alt="Facebook" style="padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px; vertical-align: middle;" border="0" src="http://images.wisestamp.com/facebook.png"></a> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/olbekson" style="text-decoration: underline"><img width="16" height="16" alt="LinkedIn" style="padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px; vertical-align: middle;" border="0" src="http://images.wisestamp.com/linkedin.png"></a> <a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/c3mdigital" style="text-decoration: underline"><img width="16" height="16" alt="Google" style="padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px; vertical-align: middle;" border="0" src="http://images.wisestamp.com/google.png"></a> <a href="http://twitter.com/chris_olbekson" style="text-decoration: underline"><img width="16" height="16" alt="Twitter" style="padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px; vertical-align: middle;" border="0" src="http://images.wisestamp.com/twitter.png"></a> <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/chris_olbekson" style="text-decoration: underline"><img width="16" height="16" alt="Flickr" style="padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px; vertical-align: middle;" border="0" src="http://images.wisestamp.com/flickr.png"></a> <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/profile/3629249" style="text-decoration: underline"><img width="16" height="16" alt="WordPress" style="padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px; vertical-align: middle;" border="0" src="http://images.wisestamp.com/wordpress.png"></a><br>

<img src="http://s.wisestamp.com/pixel.png?p=chrome&amp;v=2.0.0.0&amp;t=1283525695339&amp;u=9113998&amp;e=1882" width="1" height="1"></span></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Alex Hempton-Smith <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hempsworth@gmail.com">hempsworth@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Perhaps a search of the SVN repo to see whether these are already in use, how they are being used etc.<div><br clear="all">

<font color="#888888">-- Alex</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



Is fancy background image processing useful enough to warrant not implementing a universal prohibition of such dangerous PHP commands?<div><br></div><div>(I&#39;d say that I lean toward &quot;no&quot;; but I&#39;m not one to use such &quot;fancy&quot; processing and the like in a Theme.)</div>




<div><br></div><div><font color="#888888">Chip</font><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Austin Matzko <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:austin@pressedcode.com" target="_blank">austin@pressedcode.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>



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<div>On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Otto &lt;<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; Can anybody come up with any valid reason for a theme to use fopen, ever?<br>
<br>
</div>I can think of at least a couple popular &quot;premium&quot; themes that have<br>
built-in file caches.  They may not use fopen specifically though.<br>
<br>
Also, I imagine a theme that wanted to do fancy background image<br>
processing for example would end up writing out those files.<br>
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