Okay, so good to know that my paranoia was well-placed, in this case!<div><br></div><div>And the Theme failed, spectacularly.</div><div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">For reference, that's an hacked up XML parser, sort of thing. It's<br>
homegrown, comes from some kind of homemade RSS parser. Probably<br>
copied and pasted from who knows where...<br>
<br>
Anyway, he's using it to parse the results of a GET on this:<br>
<a href="http://www.footerpower.com/footer-admin/admin/xml_file/beach%20vacation.xml" target="_blank">http://www.footerpower.com/footer-admin/admin/xml_file/beach%20vacation.xml</a><br>
<br>
And that builds the spam links in the footer.<br>
<br>
Spam aside, I'd say to reject any theme that contained an XML parser<br>
or RSS parser. WordPress has SimplePie built in for that sort of<br>
thing. Also with the old deprecated Snoopy and Magpie stuff (which you<br>
really shouldn't use anymore.. SimplePie is much nicer, really).<br>
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-Otto<br>
</font><div class="im"><br>
<br>
<br>
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> See here.<br>
> Does this have any need for existing in a WordPress Theme?<br>
> What XML needs to be parsed into a string for manipulation within a Theme?<br>
> Or am I being overly paranoid again, due to ignorance of what this is used<br>
> for?<br>
> Chip<br>
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