Magnus Määttä

Today PHP turned one tenth of a century old!

Here is the announcement for PHP 1.0.
I still remember some of my first experience with PHP, 2.0-something. Just a few flashes mostly. Coded some stuff in ASP and JSP for a few years before I came back to PHP around version 3.0 or something like that, I'm not exactly sure. Used some more ASP, got burned by it and moved along to a more mature PHP 4.something.something.

In unrelated news, I created a new goto thread - another monster. It's waaaay too long and it's mostly comments like "goto is baaaad!! Spaghetti code!! Me no like!" and responses to that. A very few replies which actually brings up technical problems or standpoints. I would say 80% of everything in the thread is just personal opinions.
But what I don't understand is why we who want to use it and can use it wisely should be refused to have that option.

Here's a patch by Sara: goto_5.1.0.diff
And my rework of Sara's old patch: opcode_goto_5.1.0-3.diff
I would recommend using Sara's new patch instead of my reworked patch of her old code.

Today I have some sad news.. In the fireworks comming out from one of the PSUs in my alpha I have now declared it dead. I tried my best, cleaning you, swapping PSU slots for the working one, but it was too late.. Three times is the number of times I have revived you from the dead, moving CPUs and memory around, cleaning you.. Why, ohh, why did you leave me now ?

I want to thank you for the good times we had together, installing different version of Tru64 on you.. Reinstalling Tru64.. Learning Tru64, mounting your SCSI disks..


So you see, it's with great pain I had to declare you dead, 03:20 (24h clock).



My alpha

1996 - 2005-06-03


Rest in peace.. wiping tears

So you want that huh ?
Too bad for you, you are FUCKED. Not possible, no, it's not. Atleast if you want to make your design without tables for all browsers. IE is fucked up - FUCKED. No need to say that I'm not an IE fan (get Firefox!).

Anyway.. There's a workaround for it...