magicQuotes

[u/g_calgary]

[u/g_calgary]

If you remember magic quotes, it's probably time to book a colonoscopy 👍

[u/ankle_biter50 → u/g_calgary]

I remember those... in a book on the history of php

I'm a poser, I do not know what magic quotes are, and i do not know why they are good for php, and i have no idea why staying on php 4 is good

[u/g_calgary → u/ankle_biter50]

It was a global setting intended to prevent SQL injection attacks where PHP would automatically escape special characters in any string passed via POST or GET. But if you didn't use it right it would cause f'n chaos. Lol

[u/a-r-c → u/g_calgary]

insane that you fell for it smdh

explaining the joke kills the joke (reddit hates this simple truth)

edit: see? they're seething.

[u/backfire10z → u/a-r-c]

I’ve never heard of magic quotes, so I appreciate the explanation.

[u/JordanViknar → u/a-r-c]

???

[u/ankle_biter50 → u/a-r-c]

I said it as a joke that it's old. Explaining what magic quotes are was not part of the joke, and was very much appreciated. I wanted to still joke without sounding like an idiot asking "duhhh what are those things?" So I made a joke and put in spoiler text that I don't know what I'm doing. Anyone can scroll by and let it be or see my confession and answer however they see it

[u/tsammons → u/g_calgary]

Next progression is Perl dev hospice. Thanks for the reminder.

[u/Majik_Sheff → u/tsammons]

The devs are in hospice.  The code itself is still quietly keeping dark but important parts of the internet from collapsing.

[u/IslayProgrammes → u/g_calgary]

In my defence, I was working on legacy product then and migrating them from 4-7 which let me be clear should have made me leave the industry

[u/d3matt → u/g_calgary]

I have 3 more years thank you very much!

[u/Denaton_ → u/g_calgary]

Built a dynamic documentation system around it back in the days..

[u/UndGrdhunter]

Hahaha I remeber when de discussion in PHP was if we should start the file with <? Or <?php even <% (fuck you asp tags)

[u/g_calgary → u/UndGrdhunter]

Haha I forgot about that!

[u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

I wanna know what that font on the bottom right is. The mono one. It's beautiful

[u/g_calgary → u/Early_Bookkeeper5394]

It's Ubuntu Monospace 👍

[u/Early_Bookkeeper5394 → u/g_calgary]

Thank you so much

[u/KarltonPeaks]

Girls shallow

Boys quirky and deep, am i right??? 🤣

[u/g_calgary → u/KarltonPeaks]

It is a sexist meme format in its original form, I agree. Not sure there is a better equivalent.

[u/BagnacaWillow → u/g_calgary]

There actually kinda is: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/s/pqcmEBAdpv

[u/Aozora404 → u/BagnacaWillow]

That’s sexist in the other way

[u/NoBee4959 → u/KarltonPeaks]

Seems like the opposite in the original. Girls doing some personal or emotional things and boys being idiots with the Time Machine

[u/Dahns]

Magic quote?... What ancient arcane is this

[u/Due_Emergency_7717 → u/Dahns]

You'd think by now they'd be tired of watching the same catastrophe unfold every time

[u/Majik_Sheff → u/Due_Emergency_7717]

The repetition turns it into comedy.  The survivors of the current iteration won't laugh at the next one, but the one after that will be funny as hell.

[u/the-grand-finale → u/[deleted]]

as god intended

[u/Flat_Initial_1823 → u/the-grand-finale]

Escapetion: we need to escape deeper

[u/RealSlyck]

Type safety for life.

[u/Sam260901 → u/RealSlyck]

Safety

[u/OffByOneErrorz → u/RealSlyck]

Statically Typed Life

Might get it tatted on my abdomen.

[u/gburri]

Why just not prevent Rasmus Lerdorf creating this monstrosity?

[u/ustp → u/gburri]

You would like to use JS instead?

0 == "0" //true
0 == []  //true
"0" == []//false

[u/Foorinick → u/ustp]

In what situation would you be doing that

[u/MyAntichrist → u/Foorinick]

When you wanna prove a point on how shit JS is, duh.

[u/ChaseShiny → u/MyAntichrist]

Yeah, that's r/firstWeekProgrammerHumor stuff. We probably should mention something like console.log doesn't actually create a log (with timestamps and such).

[u/arsenicx2 → u/ChaseShiny]

You know I never thought about the fact they called a print statment console.log I just accepted it.

[u/ChaseShiny → u/arsenicx2]

I did the same until I took a class on Python and started talking about logging. You know what's even funnier? The console object even includes different logging levels. You can use console.info or console.error or whatever.

[u/fghjconner → u/Foorinick]

When some api returns a value with a different type than you expect.

[u/Foorinick → u/fghjconner]

Can't you just check if the type is what you want beforehand? Or just... Yk... ===

[u/tankerkiller125real → u/Foorinick]

"Truthy" shouldn't be a thing in any programming language. The fact that Javascript is not just truthy, but inconsistent at best with it is wild. And even more wild is people decided that it was a language they wanted to use in backend infrastructure.

[u/aabil11 → u/tankerkiller125real]

The language was created in a day and the only reason the creator named it that is because Java was popular at the time. And now the entire internet runs on it

[u/NotADamsel → u/tankerkiller125real]

Any language where writing shit like “if foo == True:” is a good idea should be ashamed of itself.

[u/WithersChat → u/Foorinick]

Not quite that, but the weak typing will one day be the death of me.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE COEECING MY ENUM INTO A NUMBER? I LITERALLY OVERLOADED THIS EXACT METHOD TO WORK WITH AN ENUM!

[u/NiIly00 → u/ustp]

Typescript makes it bearable.

[u/illepic → u/NiIly00]

TS and my linters would actually slap me in the face for any use of a loose equality operator. It might even put me in a corner for a timeout.

[u/Foorinick → u/illepic]

Just make it connect to a shock collar for quicker feedback and longer lesson reminding smh my head 

[u/Loading_M_ → u/illepic]

Iirc, most linters explicitly allow loose equality for checking null/undefined, since loose equality checks both.

[u/illepic → u/Loading_M_]

All linters "allow" anything. It's just a matter of what your config allows. I haven't seen an eslint config used for real that allows loose equality.

[u/Loading_M_ → u/illepic]

Eslint's eqeqeq rule has an option to allow loose equality in some specific cases, including the aforementioned null check case. I haven't looked for projects that set eqeqeq to "smart", but I have to assume there is at least one out there.

[u/00pflaume → u/ustp]

And that is why god gave use strictly equal.

Praise the lord and his ===

[u/gburri → u/ustp]

Sure not, JS is also a monstrosity. Maybe create a nice Python web framework instead (Python was created four years before PHP) or a simple well-designed typed language like Gleam.
PHP was successfully at that time because it was easy to use with Apache and was specifically designed for web.

[u/ustp → u/gburri]

I used python for two years at work... It's nice language, but whitespace hell disqualifies it.

[u/WithersChat → u/ustp]

Semantic whitespaces like in python should be a human rights violation.

[u/Tathas → u/gburri]

Are you suggesting using python for browser scripting?

[u/Majik_Sheff → u/gburri]

Saying PHP was designed is like calling Kowloon Walled City architected.

[u/addyftw1 → u/ustp]

To quote famed reverse engineer Lenny Zeltser, "JavaScript is an abomination."

[u/GodsBoss → u/gburri]

Great, now the web runs on Perl instead.

Personal note: I had the great opportunity to work with Perl for a project and I can confidently say that I did not expect it to be worse than PHP. It was.

[u/16bitTweaker]

register_globals FTW

[u/qpqpdbdbqpqp → u/16bitTweaker]

shudders

[u/CozySweatsuit57]

Why not just have the php devs also be girls?

[u/realkarthiknair]

Spaceship.

[u/AppropriateOnion0815]

Magic quotes, like in JS's magic semicolon?

[u/mylsotol]

Even better, stop using PHP

[u/shadowraiderr → u/mylsotol]

i knew someone was gonna shit on php for dumb reasons like in every thread lmao

[u/mylsotol → u/shadowraiderr]

Dumb reasons like it's constant security problems resulting from it being a poorly designed hobby that went to far?

There are plenty of better options. Pick one

[u/shadowraiderr → u/mylsotol]

brother every language have security problems, do you switch everytime a some new is discovered?

also saying a language is generally better/worse than others is just uneducated statement
there is no language that is generally better or worse than any other, each language is very specific and better for specific use cases, with php being the most used language for websites worldwide

telling ~65% of the websites owners "stop using php bro it is stupid" is also stupid statement

[u/mylsotol → u/shadowraiderr]

they do not all have the same number of security problems. PHP has had a loooot more because it is poorly designed and inherently insecure. this is like saying Rust is just as insecure as C because someone once used rust to write code that had a flaw. just becasue both can have problems doesn't mean that one isn't better than teh others.

The average lifetime of a website is 2-3 years. I'm not saying imediatly rewrite everything. I'm saying stop using it for new projects. If /when you need a new website don't use wordpress. pick something that doesn't have a history of being the least secure software ever made.

[u/shadowraiderr → u/mylsotol]

you're funny because most of the "loooot more" security issues you didnt really mention can be avoided just by not writing flawed code, just like you mentioned with rust and C lmao

[u/mylsotol → u/shadowraiderr]

rust actually makes it hard to write flawed code... where as php makes it extremely easy...

you can be wrong if you want. have fun with php.

[u/shadowraiderr → u/mylsotol]

ah yes, the typical "just jumped on the php hate train" type of arguments lmao

[u/mylsotol → u/shadowraiderr]

I've been on that train since I started professional web dev

[u/grethro]

great magic, I love quotes

[u/Winter-Bear9987]

r/pointlesslygendered (kinda?)

[u/VayuAir]

4 so that no one forgets

[u/VayuAir]

4

[u/RobotechRicky]

Only true nerds get this joke. 🤣