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.
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
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. Learn more.
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].
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. The fact that it's not cryptographically secure is worth noting, but absolutely reasonable.
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]. ProGet’s got you covered with security and access controls on your NuGet feeds. One of those “not absolutely necessary” bugs was that sometimes, it just didn’t save data. This code had been in production for years.
The Daily WTF
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Melinda's team built a PHP front-end that could not only manage files, but also allowed administrators to manage those quotas. That looked like a security key for their cloud API, transmitted in the open. The developer behind this wrote their own security model, instead of using the one their storage provider offered.
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