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What Idiot Wrote This? Oh, Wait, It Was Me.

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Starting with this post, we have a new category here at CSI: PHP. It’s called ‘mea culpa’, and it’s criminal code written by yours truly.

Behold the awesome that is error(), an unholy concoction of PHP, JavaScript, and HTML. It’s the only function in a file called common.php, which makes perfect sense because shut up. Yes, this was in production use, and would dislpay a JavaScript alert with an error message whenever I remembered to use it.

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<?php // common.php

function error($msg) {
    ?>
    <html>
    <head>
    <script language="JavaScript">
    <!--
        alert("<?=$msg?>");
        history.back();
    //-->
    </script>
    </head>
    <body>
    </body>
    </html>
    <?
    exit;
}

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