Mario,<div><br></div><div>The only "dummy" question is the one that remains unasked. :)</div><div><br></div><div>Can you provide a more specific example? Perhaps a ticket or something, that uses the function(s) in question?</div>
<div><br></div><div>In general, though, IMHO, it is *always* preferable to use a core WP function for content filtering and/or untrusted data sanitization/validation.</div><div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Mario Peshev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mario@peshev.net">mario@peshev.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello Reviewers,<div><br></div><div>I'm not that well acquainted with security in PHP and WP so it might be a bit dummy question, but I have tough time following the parsing and formatting practices in WP themes. Since there is a Formatting section in WP function list - <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference#Formatting_Functions" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference#Formatting_Functions</a> , and some of the functions seem pretty similar to the same function names in PHP, what is the rule and is it required for the WP functions to be used instead, are they always better than plain PHPs?<br clear="all">
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