(based on a true story)
A well-known but discouraged operator in PHP is the silence operator @, that supresses any output,
that a particular command may yield. Read on to find out how you should not use it.
Silence of the LAMPs
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Schlagwort-Archive: bug
Spooky Action at not so much Distance
Over the weekend i encountered a twist in PHP that really left me wondering. I made a mistake and i thought i should have gotten an error, or at least a warning. I got a completely unexpected behavior instead.
According to our PHP Oracle this is just a legacy from PHP 4 though and there was much Discussion wether changing this behavior would break old apps. I think it’s a possible source of hard-to-track errors though. Weiterlesen
My Own Private WTF
Just an example on what you can code that looks pretty correct… until it stops working
Why would a JavaScript application stop working moving from 2007 to 2008? Why would a PHP script display January to July and then skip August and September, to then continue correctly with October through December? Weiterlesen