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I'm guessing / hoping there was a lot of data in there as INSERT statements.

My horror story was being asked to do maintenance on PHP sites written in the early days of PHP. Hundreds - maybe thousands - of PHP files with copy-pasted HTML and intermingled logic. As far as I can tell, the idea of instantiating a whole MVC framework from a single entrypoint file came after that particular site was created, so every possible page was its own entrypoint with its own boilerplate. Source control also seemed to predate this project, so you had plenty of .old.php and .old.v2.php files.

Programming at webdev agencies is a challenging experience.




Nope. It was a crazy stored procedure. When all you know is SQL… you’ll solve some crazy problems using sql.

Oof. That tbh sounds worse




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