The Daily WTF

JUNE 19, 2023

Martin 's team had a problem in PHP. Being PHP, the empty function also doesn't check for empty strings, it checks for strings that can coerce to false (which includes the empty string, but also includes '0' ). See, the is_null function is, well, checking for nulls. It isn't checking for empty strings.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Daniel spotted an array called $months in a PHP application. Advertisement] Continuously monitor your servers for configuration changes, and report when there's configuration drift. The data being stored in the array was some total of the sales of some commodity, for the past 5 months. That much all made sense.

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The Daily WTF

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Mark worked with the kind of programmer who understood the nuances and flexibility of PHP on a level like none other. I'll let Mark explain: if it can't find a property called "otherWidgets", it uses PHP's magic __get , __set , and __call to create a call to getOtherWidgets. Advertisement] Picking up NuGet is easy.

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The Daily WTF

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Menno was reading through some PHP code and was happy to see that it was thoroughly commented: function degToRad ($value). return $value * (pi()/ 180 ); // convert excel timestamp to php date. }. " [Advertisement]. But I'm not sure how that comment came to be." Keep the plebs out of prod. Learn more.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 13, 2022

On the other hand, submitter Born 2 Ruby, Forced 2 PHP was hired to work on a Ruby on Rails application, but after starting, discovered that the RoR app was an aspiration and the day to day work was to keep the legacy PHP application from falling over in production. Advertisement]. Keep the plebs out of prod. Learn more.

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The Daily WTF

MAY 19, 2024

Take this delectable PHP nugget, from Nathaniel P , who has previously been tortured by bad date handling. Advertisement] ProGet’s got you covered with security and access controls on your NuGet feeds. Good method names are one of the primary ways to write self-documenting code. Honestly, this function needs to be delected.

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The Daily WTF

OCTOBER 2, 2024

No one was comfortable editing PHP code. Advertisement] Picking up NuGet is easy. Not a single staff member had ever received an email through the interface, but they all agreed it was a good feature to have, even if no one used it. The relationship between staff members and email addresses was stored in a database.

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The Daily WTF

MAY 22, 2024

But the widget received a parameter from the HTML DOM, which itself was generated by PHP, and it didn't take long to find the SQL query it was using to find the next event: SELECT next_event FROM event_timer. Advertisement] Continuously monitor your servers for configuration changes, and report when there's configuration drift.

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The Daily WTF

MARCH 13, 2024

There's a PHP front end, which also talks directly to the database, as well as a Java backend, which also talks to point-of-sale terminals. The PHP front end has code that looks like this: $sql = "select query from table where id=X" ; $result = mysql_query ( $sql ); //. Rui recently pulled an all-nighter on a new contract.

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The Daily WTF

MARCH 27, 2024

Unrelated to this code, but a PHP weirdness, we pass the callable cmp as a string to the usort function to apply a sort. Every time I write a PHP article, I learn a new horror of the language, and "strings as callable objects" is definitely horrifying. Now, a moment ago, I said that we knew the format of the inputs.

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The Daily WTF

APRIL 10, 2024

So many languages eschew "truth" for "truthiness" Today, we're looking at PHP's approach. PHP automatically coerces types to a boolean with some fairly simple rules: the boolean false is false the integer 0 is false, as is the float 0.0 In pure PHP, anything non-zero is true, but here only 1 is true.

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The Daily WTF

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Cassi ’s co-worker ( previously ) was writing some more PHP. Well, that seems like a perfect use case for PHP. "); n"; Now, PHP’s array_map is a beast of a function, and its documentation has some pretty atrocious examples. Lost my train of thought there when checking the PHP docs. Advertisement].

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The Daily WTF

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You see, Bert was a PHP developer. He was building a PHP application. But he copy/pasted Lisa's Java code into a PHP file, and then remangled it until it was executable PHP. Much of his frustration was rooted in the fact that her code didn't even run when he copy/pasted it into a PHP file. Advertisement].

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The Daily WTF

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Like a lot of PHP web plugins, someone decided that they needed to "protect" their code by obfuscating it. Advertisement] ProGet’s got you covered with security and access controls on your NuGet feeds. Ben 's web firm took on a new client, and they're using a rather questionable shopping cart system. Learn more.

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The Daily WTF

JUNE 27, 2024

Finally, Mr. TA has found a possible explanation for a large portion of the content on this site, muttering "they should study the creators of PHP while they're at it" [Advertisement] Utilize BuildMaster to release your software with confidence, at the pace your business demands. " XX is obviously 20, Jeppe.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Advertisement] BuildMaster allows you to create a self-service release management platform that allows different teams to manage their applications. This just has a little bit of everything in it, doesn't it? There's the string-munged HTML generation in the database layer. Explore how!

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The Daily WTF

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Imagine you're building a PHP web application, and you need to display different forms on different pages. Now, for most of us, we'd likely be using some framework to solve this problem, but even if we weren't, the obvious solution of "use a different PHP file for each screen" is a fairly obvious solution.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Now how would someone implement this complex formula in PHP? Advertisement] Continuously monitor your servers for configuration changes, and report when there's configuration drift. It's handling thousands of dollars of transactions a day, which isn't a huge amount, but it's certainly non-trivial.

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The Daily WTF

MAY 14, 2024

Juliano had this very non-WTF bit of PHP code: if (! " [Advertisement] Otter - Provision your servers automatically without ever needing to log-in to a command prompt. I usually (but not always) avoid using those as WTFs. path && false) { //disabling this branch because X instead. But no, we did none of that.

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The Daily WTF

MARCH 20, 2024

Advertisement] BuildMaster allows you to create a self-service release management platform that allows different teams to manage their applications. rmdir requires the target directory to be empty, so this recurses over all the files and subfolders in the directory, deleting them, so that we can delete the directory. Explore how!

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The Daily WTF

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Bleu supports a Pimcore-based PHP site. Pimcore is a rather sprawling enterprise system for PHP. Advertisement] ProGet’s got you covered with security and access controls on your NuGet feeds. Like many Model-View-Controller type frameworks, maps HTTP requests to actions on controllers. Let's take a look at a few of them.

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The Daily WTF

MAY 24, 2023

We've already picked on bad logging code this week, but we haven't picked on PHP in awhile, so let's look at some bad PHP logging code, from Kris. Advertisement] Otter - Provision your servers automatically without ever needing to log-in to a command prompt. This is done for every log message. Get started today!

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The Daily WTF

JULY 18, 2022

"Simple" for Bjørn is "do as much in PHP as possible since I am okay at PHP, including templating out JavaScript. Advertisement]. Sandra ( previously ) is still working with Bjørn. Bjørn also continues to like keeping things… simple. "Simple" This line exists, it doesn't work, and shouldn't be there.

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The Daily WTF

AUGUST 14, 2023

Now, I wasn't certain if PHP's rand function was inclusive or not, so I had to look up the documentation to see if there was a bug in this code. There is not, but the PHP rand page is plastered with warnings and caveats. Advertisement] Keep the plebs out of prod. Restrict NuGet feed privileges with ProGet. Learn more.

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The Daily WTF

AUGUST 7, 2022

You see, their PHP application allowed file uploads. PHP doesn't have a built in trunc method." " Pedantically true, as there's nothing called trunc or truncate in PHP, but it does have a floor and an intval method, both of which discard decimal digits (but behave slightly differently). Advertisement].

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The Daily WTF

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Pedro inherited a PHP application, and the previous developer had some opinions about how to handle arguments to functions. First, the $fullName line doesn't work as intended, since arrays in PHP are zero indexed. Advertisement]. ' $names [ 1 ]. ' ' ' $name [ 2 ]; return $names [ 0 ]. ' Am I an array?

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The Daily WTF

MARCH 6, 2023

It's that last optimization that's notable, just because the basic algorithm showed up here in 2005 - but in PHP. I hope and fear that some developer ported the PHP version to C# because they couldn't find a better option. Of course, all that effort, and they ignored the built-in TryParse.

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The Daily WTF

AUGUST 6, 2024

" Dark Horse " inherited some PHP code. Advertisement] BuildMaster allows you to create a self-service release management platform that allows different teams to manage their applications. They had a hundred lines to submit, but only sent in a dozen- which is fine, as the dozen lines tell us what the other hundred look like.

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The Daily WTF

MARCH 24, 2021

Dan was reviewing some PHP code written by a co-worker, as part of taking on a project. Advertisement]. The code was in “support” mode, rarely receiving changes, getting bug fixes only when absolutely necessary, and nobody really wanted to be the person responsible for it. This code had been in production for years. Learn more.

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The Daily WTF

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Charles is supporting a PHP based application. Advertisement] Plan Your.NET 9 Migration with Confidence Your journey to.NET 9 is more than just one decision.Avoid migration migraines with the advice in this free guide. One feature of the application is a standard "Contact Us" form. "rn" 'Reply-To: ' $sendTo. "rn"

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The Daily WTF

APRIL 3, 2022

Take Cassi , who needed to run some PHP software which depended on a few binaries and shell calls to do its job. output will always be an array, and even in PHP, an empty array is never going to equal zero. Advertisement]. Source control history can go a long way to telling a story. So this didn't work at all. Probably not.

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The Daily WTF

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

According to the PHP docs, any non-empty value means it's running on HTTPS, so it's technically an incorrect check. I strongly suspect, though, that it's a workaround for a badly behaving web server- I see a world where some server running PHP sets that variable to off or something equally inane, violating the spec.

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The Daily WTF

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Cassi continues the fight against ancient, creaky PHP code. Today, it's particularly ancient- according to source control, it predates PHP 5.0 (and Advertisement]. and thus structured exceptions, and in this case may predate the current century). Get started today!

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The Daily WTF

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

First, we turn to Adam , who's doing some minor work on an old PHP application. # Yes this is really how you do date constants in PHP now :-(. Advertisement]. So let's use this as a moment to look at some bad date handling code, an evergreen topic. define( 'XXXCutoffDate' , ( new DateTime(YEAR. '-01-19

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The Daily WTF

AUGUST 10, 2021

But it meant that when Kaci wanted to understand why this block of PHP code existed, she needed to ask the developer: //$_GET['debug'] = TRUE; //exit; if (rand( 1 , 20 ) != "This PHP script runs as part of a cronjob. ." Advertisement]. 4 ) { //echo 'im out!'; '; exit ; }.

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The Daily WTF

MAY 4, 2022

Steve 's predecessor knows: sometimes, stuff happens that makes you go "WTF" While Steve was reviewing some inherited PHP code, he discovered that this predecessor had built some code to handle those situations. Advertisement]. namespace WtfInc ; ##use Exception as Exception; class WTFException extends Exception.

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The Daily WTF

MARCH 23, 2022

We've had a bit of a run of PHP in the inbox lately, which is fine, but certainly isn't doing anything to help PHP's reputation as a WTF factory. Advertisement]. This one comes from Lucio C , who was hired to fix a hacked WordPress installation. What could go wrong? Explore how!

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