Hey all, I'm new to XOOPS and I think its a great CMS, much better than others I have tried (PostNuke, PHPNuke, Drupal, Mambo.)

Anyway, I'm developing a module which is like a phone book for xoops. Basically it will store the user's address, phone number, and other pertinent information. This is for a website I am developing privately, however I might eventually release the module publicly on sourceforge.

But I digress. In developing this module, I have been taking a peek at other modules. Nearly all of them use the text sanitizer for database i/o. Good idea to avoid SQL Injections and other nasty bugs. However, many of them use the method makeTboxData4Save(). A peek at the module.textsantitizer.php source tells you that this method is deprecated, but nothing else.

It is good practice to note why a method has been deprecated and what the replacement method(s) is/are in the comments of the deprecated method. I know we all hate to write comments, but the developer already noted the method is deprecated. Why not go the extra mile and add that extra information? I think it would help module development quite a bit. Nobody wants to lag development by using deprecated methods, so readily knowing what to use as a replacement is a big help

Anyway, enough of this long winded post. I'm glad to be developing for xoops, its pretty simple and painless, compared to other CMSs.

Joining the XOOPS Module Development Forge might be a good idea, as the wiki there is growing and growing with development information.

Good luck with your module!

Herko

You are absolutely right.

for a short-term fix: Deprecated functions and their counterpart