The Daily WTF

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Lisa 's company needed to add some custom functionality to a third-party application- IniERP- which was made easier by the fact that the company had a SOAP web service to interact with. So fine , and so happy , that other teams heard: "there's a way to integrate your applications into IniERP." It's not PHP."

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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. This particular application frequently ended up with multi-gigabyte log files. This particular application frequently ended up with multi-gigabyte log files.

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The Daily WTF

APRIL 14, 2024

You can get there , but honestly, most applications can get away with checking for something that looks vaguely email like and call it a day. 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|b

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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 ]. '

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Openxcell

MAY 19, 2020

Over the most recent couple of years, there has been an astounding blast in the mobile application industry with best backend technology for mobile app , and even without specialists remarking on it, a non-professional can measure this as never-ending. . Front end development has to do with the UI of the mobile application.

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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 7, 2023

The application Zach B found himself supporting needed to accept file uploads. 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. md5 ( uniqid ( time ())). 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

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. No, it isn't, not for Scott.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Then he inherited an antique PHP 5.3 application, written by someone who names variables like they're spreadsheet columns: $ag , $ah , and $az are all variables which show up. This function is used everywhere , especially the variable $arr , which is one of the most popular globals in the application. Advertisement].

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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]. BuildMaster allows you to create a self-service release management platform that allows different teams to manage their applications. Explore how!

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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]. BuildMaster allows you to create a self-service release management platform that allows different teams to manage their applications. Explore how!

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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 ; }. Rich writes: Need I go on?

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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. The number of peers providing feedback is variable, so the application has to manage that. Advertisement] Utilize BuildMaster to release your software with confidence, at the pace your business demands. Download today!

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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. Unfortunately, Vania has this to add: Unfortunately there is no budget for making this kind of change to the application. Advertisement].

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The Daily WTF

MAY 23, 2022

Kerin inherited a scheduling application for a university. This application stored the scheduled days for a class in the database… as one comma-separated field. Advertisement]. This was a problem for Kerin, who was hired to add predictive scheduling and classroom density measurements to the system. Learn more.

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The Daily WTF

JUNE 20, 2022

Christopher Walker continues to struggle against ancient PHP applications in the automotive industry. With the point system behind him, there was a whole pile of internal applications for handling information about laws, misconceptions about the law, and other driver services. Advertisement]. Get started today!

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The Daily WTF

APRIL 3, 2019

PHP gets a lot of flack, but perhaps we're taking the wrong perspective on things. Perhaps the gods have condemned PHP to ceaselessly rolling CMSes and wikis up the hill, whence they roll back down under their own weight. I leave PHP at the foot of its codebase. One must imagine PHP happy. Advertisement].

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The Daily WTF

JULY 28, 2021

It's bad news when you inherit a legacy PHP CMS. I mean, ideally, we want to check that the file is a valid file of the appropriate type so we don't serve up badfile.exe.mp3 , but for an ancient PHP CMS just checking the extension is likely asking a lot. Advertisement]. Explore how!

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The Daily WTF

JANUARY 29, 2020

Pierre is a contractor who supports a variety of companies helping them manage data-science and analytics applications. One of Pierre’s clients has decided to migrate to that fancy new thing they’ve been hearing about, “the cloud”, and thus they have to move all of their applications to that cloud. lp)-sum(lf(i+1)); W(c)=sum(i.*w);

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The Daily WTF

MARCH 6, 2022

In the Before Times™, Initech had an offshore development team that maintained an application inherited from an acquisition. The offshore team was released and the application they supported ended up in the hands of Lovelace. " [Advertisement]. Now that everyone was tightening their belts, though, that had to go.

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The Daily WTF

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

At some point, their PHP developer wanted to branch out, and decided to solve a problem using a small Python script. In a surprisingly short amount of time, the script expanded until it was two separate web applications which were absolutely critical to business operations. One was for "Application A", in its entirety.

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The Daily WTF

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Data access is fundamental to pretty much every application, and every programming environment has some set of rich tools that make it easy to write powerful, flexible queries without leaving yourself open to SQL injection attacks. Gidget W inherited a PHP application which, unsurprisingly, is rife with SQL injection vulnerabilities.

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High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

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High Scalability

JUNE 10, 2022

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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High Scalability

MAY 4, 2022

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High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

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JULY 15, 2021

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JUNE 29, 2021

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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JUNE 8, 2021

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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