[theme-reviewers] Emergency Call

[Chris Olbekson]

There are a lot of current themes in the repository that are using fopen.
 See this search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=fopen+site:http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/




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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Alex Hempton-Smith <hempsworth at gmail.com>wrote:

> Perhaps a search of the SVN repo to see whether these are already in use,
> how they are being used etc.
>
> -- Alex
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> Is fancy background image processing useful enough to warrant not
>> implementing a universal prohibition of such dangerous PHP commands?
>>
>> (I'd say that I lean toward "no"; but I'm not one to use such "fancy"
>> processing and the like in a Theme.)
>>
>> Chip
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Austin Matzko <austin at pressedcode.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>> > Can anybody come up with any valid reason for a theme to use fopen,
>>> ever?
>>>
>>> I can think of at least a couple popular "premium" themes that have
>>> built-in file caches.  They may not use fopen specifically though.
>>>
>>> Also, I imagine a theme that wanted to do fancy background image
>>> processing for example would end up writing out those files.
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