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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 14, 2024

But not so unnecessary that they didn't do it twice- they mirrored this code on the server side, in PHP: function isEmail ( $email ) { return ( preg_match ( "/^[-_.[:alnum:]]+@((([[:alnum:]]|[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]-]*[[:alnum:]]).)+(ad|ae|aero|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|arpa|as|at|au|aw|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|biz|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|com|coop|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|edu|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb

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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 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 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 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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

PHP doesn't have a built-in UUID function, but this comment on uniqid suggests one. Advertisement] Otter - Provision your servers automatically without ever needing to log-in to a command prompt. uniqid is not a UUID function, so it actually doesn't guarantee uniqueness. I have no idea what the point of any of this is.

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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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The Daily WTF

APRIL 5, 2022

Let's say you've got an older PHP application. Instead, in the labirynth of a thousand include files, many of them are dead ends containing only: [Advertisement]. Once upon a time, it was wired together by a pile of includes with no real organization or planning behind the organization. That's a happy ending, isn't it?

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The Daily WTF

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Rich was digging through some legacy PHP code, trying to track down where some apparently magical values were coming from. It's okay, though, because if you wanted to split on characters (or "explode" in PHP parlance), there's this handy method. Advertisement]. a : $b ; }. for every delimiter. Explore how!

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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

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

MARCH 1, 2023

Pieter-Jan needed to add some features to a PHP-based site for managing student assessments. Advertisement] Utilize BuildMaster to release your software with confidence, at the pace your business demands. Students would complete projects, submit them, and then receive feedback from their peers. Download today!

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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 20, 2021

Then he inherited an antique PHP 5.3 The application is "modularized" into many, many PHP files, but this ends up creating include chains tens of files deep, which makes it nigh impossible to actually understand. $arr Advertisement]. Half of those are globals. Keep the plebs out of prod. Learn more.

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The Daily WTF

JUNE 7, 2021

Maximillion was hired to maintain a PHP CMS. "The system's pretty simple," the hiring manager explained during the interview, "as I understand it, it's basically just one PHP file." " It was not just one PHP file, but the manager wasn't that far off. . "The Advertisement].

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The Daily WTF

JULY 7, 2021

One of the "legacy" PHP applications needed a few bugfixes. "Legacy" As an aside, while I was checking the specific PHP syntax for foreach , I found this caveat to manipulating arrays by reference, which cautions about some absolutely bizarre side-effects. Advertisement].

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Alleen started by digging into a PHP method which was just annoying. The PHP unset method takes a list of variables, including potentially array elements, and deletes them. Advertisement]. _find_shipment_by_object_id would, when it couldn't find the ID, return false , instead of the more expected null. Download today!

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The Daily WTF

JANUARY 3, 2022

For example, Mark M recently inherited a rather… bad PHP website. Advertisement]. Search providers work hard to keep their algorithms opaque. SEO is a mix of guessing and snake oil and sometimes outright lying. It's… a choice. A series of choices, really. A series of bad choices, and I don't like any of it. Learn more.

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