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

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

JUNE 29, 2020

For example, imagine you’re browsing a PHP codebase and see something like: $fmtedDate = data::now(); You’d instantly know that something was up, just by seeing a class named data. Advertisement]. That’s what got Vania ’s attention. She dug in, and found a few things. Download today!

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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

APRIL 30, 2024

But if you're using PHP and JavaScript, there's good odds that someone you work with has decided to combine these two tastes together to create something nobody wants to taste. > We start with some HTML which wraps some PHP code. A more extreme version happened to our anonymous submitter. closest ( "tr" ).

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The Daily WTF

JULY 17, 2024

We see this all the time in JavaScript, and of course, in PHP. PHP booleans, for example, can surprise you: 0 is false, which is a common enough assumption, but so is "0" - the string zero. These are, in PHP-land, both true. Which, if you don't know much about PHP, feels necessary. As are empty arrays.

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The Daily WTF

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

"I have been meaning to send a card, but I just wasn't planning on using PHP's eval() to send it," Andrew wrote. . Advertisement]. writes, "I was trying to connect to PA VPN and it seems they think that downgrading my client software will help." " . "What "What the heck, Doordash?

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The Daily WTF

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Anton has the joy of doing PHP work using one of the more popular e-commerce platforms. Now, say what you will about PHP, its absolute mess of a root namespace has a function or class for just about everything. No, the real ugly I see here is the (ab)use of PHP's interpretation. You want to split a string? Learn more.

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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 Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

You’ll need a MySQL expert to work with databases, a PHP coder for a project with dynamic web pages, or someone who is knowledgeable with the Python language for a back-end project. You can then start advertising the position with a job description that is clear and accurate. Agree on how often you will communicate and give feedback.

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The Daily WTF

APRIL 5, 2020

Frankie was handed a pile of PHP and told, "Move this to a new host." Like a lot of PHP code, this code wasn't written. " [Advertisement]. " The process didn't go well- simply copying the code to the server chucked out a 500 error. So Frankie started digging into the code. It happened.

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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 8, 2024

The loop is executed in PHP, and "rendered" in JavaScript, outputting a huge pile of array assignments. The loop is executed in PHP, and "rendered" in JavaScript, outputting a huge pile of array assignments. Worse than that, even the name of the variable is generated in PHP- group_Arr_.

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The Daily WTF

JANUARY 28, 2021

writes, "Not sure whether this is supposed to be joke or is PHP really crashing its Wikipedia page." Advertisement]. . "While everybody is complaining about extreme shipping delays, my great grandmother is getting my Etsy order just in time for New Year's," wrote Gord S. . Explore how!

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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

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

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This block of PHP code was simply copy/pasted everywhere it needed to be used, across multiple applications. Advertisement] BuildMaster allows you to create a self-service release management platform that allows different teams to manage their applications. So let's take a look at how Pierre wrote code. Don't worry.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This is the PHP code for handling checking out of their storefront: public function dispatch ( ) { try { if (! Here's hoping it's actually soon, and not the usage of "soon" where it's a synonym for "never" [Advertisement]. ProGet’s got you covered with security and access controls on your NuGet feeds.

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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

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

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

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

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

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Notably, PHP pins the Unix timestamp to UTC+00:00, aka GMT. Advertisement] Keep the plebs out of prod. Dennis found this little nugget in an application he inherited. gmdate then formats that, with the assumption that the time is in GMT. strtotime then parses that string back into a timestamp, and returns that timestamp.

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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

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

APRIL 27, 2020

It, ostensibly, contains some executable PHP code, which outputs some JavaScript into the body of the document. This lets you, in your eval , mix straight PHP and HTML content together: eval("if (foo) { ?> php }"); So you see, the developer responsible for this was being “smart”. Advertisement].

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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

APRIL 16, 2020

"I guess they tried to indirectly measure the timespan between PHP versions," Martin writes. . Advertisement]. Sam writes, "You know.I think that I'm going switch to just plastic for a little while until this poor ATM gets itself sorted out." " . "I Get started today!

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The Daily WTF

APRIL 27, 2021

Pierre inherited a PHP application. The code is pretty standard stuff, for a long-living PHP application which has been touched by many developers with constantly shifting requirements. Advertisement]. Which is to say, it's a bit of a mess. But there's one interesting quirk that shows up in the codebase.

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The Daily WTF

AUGUST 10, 2020

Well, because Mike has a co-worker that has read the docs well enough to know that PHP has a substr method, but not well enough to know it has an http_build_query method. Advertisement]. Or even an implode method , which handles string concats for you. '=' $val. '&' Get started today!

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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

JANUARY 6, 2025

json = "{" ; Now, I know you're thinking, "I see a '$' sigil, this must be PHP or maybe Perl!" Advertisement] Picking up NuGet is easy. Today's anonymous submission is a delightfully simple line of JavaScript which really is an archetype of a representative line. " No, this is JavaScript.

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The Daily WTF

JANUARY 8, 2019

Did I mention WordPress is built in PHP? Some rogue bit of PHP code had gone into a horrible loop, dumping out empty paragraph tags 131,074 times right before the footer element. Advertisement]. A fancy heading here, a custom font there. Pages upon pages of with nary a in sight. Download today!

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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

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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