[Phpmyadmin-devel] Re: trigger_error

Michal Čihař michal at cihar.com
Mon Dec 5 01:49:02 CET 2005


Hi

On Thursday 01 December 2005 11:56, Sebastian Mendel wrote:
> No, errors are for finding problems, whether by developer or admin
> (installer)
>
> Really nice to have back this times with 'Exception Error' - this
> absolutely helpless error messages.

I don't want nothing saying messages, I just want to avoid exposing 
information that should be hidden - path information in this case.

> You have always to judge between security and user friendliness.

If we really need to make such choice, we need to choose security.

> How can the developer help the user if the user can not provide a clear
> error message?

Showing strThemeNoValidImgPath (hey it's again not in language files) is IMHO 
good enough, you don't need to know that you raised this in line 107 of file 
Theme.class.php.

-- 
	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com
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