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krapp on May 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP Commandments

Yeah, just make sure somewhere you're doing all the checking (type, length, character set, providing sane defaults, etc.) that other languages probably do for you.

Because users are evil and want to destroy you and PHP is only too happy to help them... :\

EvilTerran on May 2, 2013 [–]

Yeah, I often feel like PHP is trying to destroy me.

/ used Haskell at uni, loved it

// first job in the real world is... web dev, on a sprawling legacy PHP codebase, with no documentation or tests

/// I miss my static guarantees :(

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