I know, however, I need some time to think about a better question. You can undelete you know ;)

eh it's your question, I'm here only to guide, maybe banhammer if you start spamming ads

I'm kind of wondering, is there any advantage of using the if ( ... ) : ... endif; markup over if ( ... ) { }? I found the former extremely unfriendly, and most of the IDEs can't highlight it properly.

@JackJohansson, no and I think it is mostly recommended not to use that syntax. (well, I recomend, from exactly the reason you listed)

@MarkKaplun Yes, and I can't even imagine when there are multiple nested conditionals on the above format, and the indention sucks.

Please tag my profile to ensure I see your reply.

@JackJohansson it's less intimidating to new people, but I agree, {} is better

@user9303970 I would be dubious about WordFence, it can't protect you from much, and it mostly gives that feeling of security that blinds you from actual threats. You cant fix security by installing a plugin

Some people post You have an extra semicolon in your code as an answer, and get 5 upvotes for it.

@TomJNowell I humbly tell you it doesn't blind me from anything and I'm not asking on security in general (DDOS, BFA, DB injection and so forth). I'm only asking about potential spamming the particular form I mentioned - does WordFence helps with that or a captcha is needed. I ask nothing else. Anyone is welcome to share if she or he thinks it does or doesn't.

just stating that you can't secure a site by adding a plugin, WordFence mostly provides a false sense of security. Google doesn't show that WordFence does anything special with contact form 7

I'd add a captcha

its possible it might block spammy IPs though.. but

WordFence didn't even detect infection on a website that I was sure it infected @user9303970

a captcha will also block those things, and WordFence has to scan every incoming request slowing your site down

not to mention you'd need WP to load on each request, so caching systems are somewhat compromised as a result, especially the kind that don't touch PHP like Varnish

and if your theme has a hole in it security wise, perhaps you missed some escaping or validation somewhere, WordFence can't fix that

and some hosts actively block WordFence

@JackJohansson its probably just checking the checksums of core files

@TomJNowell Doesn't even do that on some installations. I was seeing extra files on FTP, but no notice from WordFence

WordPress can be easily compromised if not updated. I had a highly secured VPS, no root access, no disk access, private key login, etc etc. Still my WP was compromised

Apparently some bug that allows on the fly XSS injection on UDP

Turned out it has sent over 500GB dos attacks from m VPS

@JackJohansson sounds like a lack of nonces or escaping

It was a 4.7 bug, fixed after updating to 4.9

How do you sort an array where 10 would sort as if it were "ten"?

Never mind, seems too complicated so I just opted out of that feature.

@MichaelEcklund pre-process a copy of the array swapping out numbers for words, then sort both arrays, using the new array as the sort

you'll probably have to implement a custom sorting algorithm though rather than relying on PHP's internal algorithm

too complicated. Ended up just implementing a alphanumeric pagination to filter the posts by a letter or number or range of either

stackoverflow.com/questions/11145393/…

so maybe it's easier than I thought

usort is the answer

Yeah I don't think so

1 = One, 8 = Eight, 10 = Ten

it's fine. this pagination solves half the battle

$f = new NumberFormatter("en", NumberFormatter::SPELLOUT);
echo $f->format(1432);

Is that just built into PHP core?

$unsorted = [ "tree",1,"cat",2,"melons",3];
$f = new NumberFormatter("en", NumberFormatter::SPELLOUT);
$formatted = array_map( function( $v ) {
	if ( is_numeric( $v ) ) {
		return $f->format( $v );
	}
	return $v;
}, $unsorted );

$final = array_combine( $unsorted, $formatted );


usort( $final, function( $a, $b ) {
	return strcmp($a, $b);
} );

something like that

@MichaelEcklund yeah secure.php.net/manual/en/class.numberformatter.php

5.3+

PhpStorm says it's not found

nevermind

but ya it's not working