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PHP: The good, the bad and the ugly
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Giuseppe Capizzi
December 17, 2012
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PHP: The good, the bad and the ugly
Giuseppe Capizzi
December 17, 2012
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Transcript
php the good, the bad & the ugly ?> <?
This is a rant!
the good
(...)
GoodThingsToSay::find("php"); // []
the bad
The PHP hammer
NOT predictable
What’s wrong and what’s not? $foo->nonExistent // Warning $foo::nonExistent //
Fatal error
Type hinting function foo(string $s) {} foo("hello world"); // PHP
Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to foo() must be an instance of string, string given
empty() “ A variable is considered empty if it does
not exist or if its value equals FALSE” $var = ""; empty($var); // true, because "" == false
parse_str() parse_str("first=one&second=two"); echo $first; // one echo $second; // two
NOT consistent
htmlentities / html_entity_decode strpos / str_rot13 php_uname / phpversion base64_encode
/ urlencode, gettype / get_class underscores or not?
array_diff array_fill array_filter count shuffle sort array_* or not?
ascii2ebcdic bin2hex deg2rad strtolower strtotime “to” or “2”?
array_filter($input, $callback) array_map($callback, $input) strpos($haystack, $needle array_search($needle, $haystack) Argument order
NOT reliable
json_decode("null"); // null json_decode("invalid json"); // null json_decode
if (strpos("hello, world!", "hello")) { echo "found!"; } else {
echo "not found :("; } // not found :( array_search, strpos
the ugly
demo!
Not just a rant :)
the good
New stuff ★ Namespaces ★ Closures ★ Traits ★ Better
syntax
New ecosystem
New ecosystem
Conclusions ★ If you can, don’t use it! ★ If
you have to: • know your enemy :) • take advantage of the new goodness