and people wonder why we say PHP is a meme

To be fair: If you are chaining ternary expressions, you deserve to suffer whatever pain the language happens to inflict upon you tenfold.

I get hating on PHP is a meme, and the language certainly has faults, but I feel like it’s no more arbitrary than how JavaScript behaves. And just like JavaScript, if you follow modern standards and use a modern version, it’s a much better experience. The language is only as good as the programmer.

The fault is the programmer for not using a switch statement.

Hating on php is one of the reasons i left reddit. This is just people who don’t use php hating php for some reason. You can do dumb examples like this for any language. Low effort and funny for children.

Ever wondered about the array_fill function? It can be baffling. Try filling an array with a negative index:

array_fill(-5, 4, 'test');

Many languages would throw an error, but PHP? It’s perfectly fine with this and you get an array starting at index -5. It’s like PHP is the Wild West of array indexing!

This is not valid syntax as of 2020. PHP 8 fixed a lot of issue like this as well as a lot of function and variable type issues.

Also this was deprecated in PHP 7 (2015).

Sure, it's counterintuitive, but so is not bracketing things in ternary operations.

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PHP Fatal error: Unparenthesized a ? b : c ? d : e is not supported. Use either (a ? b : c) ? d : e or a ? b : (c ? d : e)

Ah, I understand now. The expression is evaluated like this:

• $a == 1 ? "one" : $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
• $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
• "two" ? "three" : "other"
• "three"

Wat.

Finally got it...

$a == 1 ? "one" : ( ( $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ) ? "three" : "other" )

Now do CGI.

Please. I worked with it for five years and I still don't understand it.

!programmeranimemes@lemmy.world

Thanks I hate it.

Why