PHP

How much fun can you have with the tenary operator ?
Well, since you can do stuff which wouldn't otherwise be possible for variable variables, it allows for much fun!
Just have a look at this "beauty"!


<?php

class test
{
    public function test1()
    {
        echo "Inside test1()\n";
        $this->{(($c=(ob_start()?(debug_print_backtrace()?false:(($bt=ob_get_contents())?(
ob_end_clean()?(($bt=str_replace(array('->','::'),' ',substr($bt,strpos($bt,"#0  "))))?(
($bt=substr($bt,0,strpos($bt,'(')))?(($bt=sscanf($bt,"#0  %s %s"))?trim($bt[(($bt[1]==NULL)?0:1)])
:false):false):false):false):false)):false))?substr($c,0,(strlen($c)-1)).($c{(strlen($c)-1)}+1):false)}();
    }

    public function test2()
    {
        echo "Inside test2()\n";
        $this->{(($c=(ob_start()?(debug_print_backtrace()?false:(($bt=ob_get_contents())?(
ob_end_clean()?(($bt=str_replace(array('->','::'),' ',substr($bt,strpos($bt,"#1  "))))?(
($bt=substr($bt,0,strpos($bt,'(')))?(($bt=sscanf($bt,"#1  %s %s"))?trim($bt[(($bt[1]==NULL)?0:1)])
:false):false):false):false):false)):false))?substr($c,0,(strlen($c)-1)).($c{(strlen($c)-1)}+2):false)}();
    }

    public function test3()
    {
        echo "Inside test3()\n";
        $this->{(($c=(ob_start()?(debug_print_backtrace()?false:(($bt=ob_get_contents())?(
ob_end_clean()?(($bt=str_replace(array('->','::'),' ',substr($bt,strpos($bt,"#1  "))))?(
($bt=substr($bt,0,strpos($bt,'(')))?(($bt=sscanf($bt,"#1  %s %s"))?trim($bt[(($bt[1]==NULL)?0:1)])
:false):false):false):false):false)):false))?substr($c,0,(strlen($c)-1)).($c{(strlen($c)-1)}+2):false)}();
    }

    public function test4()
    {
        echo "Inside test4()\n";
    }
}


$test = new test();
$test->test1();





The other day, as the only user of php-irssi (if there's anyone else using it please make yourself known!), Wez asked me to check if it compiled against latest PHP cause someone had some problems with it. It compiled fine but most scripts didn't work, well, anything that actually did something didn't work. It turned out to be a signature change related to objects in the PHP_5_1 branch that caused some problems.

It should be fixed now, so if you want to be cool like me and write your IRC scripts in PHP, get php-irssi now!


$ cvs -d:pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository login
Enter phpfi as password
$ cvs -z5 -d:pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository co embed


Best part:
"What sort of loser came up with the term “enterprise” anyway? No doubt it was some hapless biz-marketing closet trekkie geek."


Here's the link.

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.

I have updated my CVS scripts (loginfo) today. I fixed a few bugs with them.

First of all, if you're using SMTP to send mail, it will now wait for reply from the SMTP server before going ahead and sending any data to it to make sure the server accept the mail.
Second fix was for the cvsusers file. I made a small typo last time I touched it so it didn't use the file so no sender was used in the mails.
Third fix was for the subject which disappeared when I tried to fix the other two things, so it didn't affect earlier versions of the script.