Everything is going as planned

Me: PHP, please load the images.
PHP: No.
Me: Come on PHP, the deadline is tonight.
PHP: Haha nope.
Me: What if I swap the libraries?
PHP: Still no.
Me: What if I add a symlink?
PHP: No. And also I hate you.
Me: *gives up and sends an email to the client saying we have to delay the release*
PHP: lololol jk here's the images haha
Me: :/

Correct me if I'm wrong, in PHP Americans use $ sign and Europeans € right?

BMW car using php..

This is how I feel after working, almost exclusively, with PHP over the last 4 years.

RIP PHP.

every dev needs this

How could you ever explain this to your family? PHP eww

PHP in 2030 :D

Presenting my paper on PHP Security in IEEE conference today... Wish me luck. I hope it gets published 😃🤞

PHP porn

This blew my mind when I started to learn PHP.

The P in PHP stands for PHP.

I am working on another developer's PHP code, and I found a new way that he done the redirect after the login with PHP!

A jab at PHP
*hides*

I don't hate PHP.

saw this while reading the docs for set_error_handler.

#PHP

Why else would PHP variables start with $?

Sysadmin TIL:
Hiring PHP developers does not contribute to the quota of employees with disabilities.

Thank you PHP manual! I would never found it otherwise!

I'm a self deprecating PHP developer.

..there's a decent pun in this thought, somewhere..

Any PHP developers? 😂

Subtle irony:

Tons of people rant about how bad PHP is on devRant.

devRant's is built using PHP.

Love it

Best : learning php

Worst : learning php

So I dual booted my pc with Ubuntu a few weeks back. And I came to a conclusion today.

Um, windows needs to go.

I learnt a bit of Java recently. I wish I didn't. Because I primarily work with php. Now I kind of dislike php.

Fuck FTP Servers!
Fuck PHP!

"You can't do everything using PHP"

Well that's where u are wrong kiddo!😉

PHP is shit - Change My Mind

They call me the PHP Duckeh!!

I got the offer!!!!!!

Initial steps of learning any new programming language :

*heck yeah I created a calculator. Guess I'll show my family that I actually can code! *

-hey mom, dad look I made a simple calculator using python B)
- uhm... That's great son but dont we already have one of those?
- yeah but like... this is completely different it uses a different programming language than what you and I have been using all this time.
- ah I see. Good for you then

*muttering to each other*
-are you sure he's got the aptitude to be a cse?
-at this point we can just hope.

Me:*stares blindly in my dark room contemplating why I'm alive*

Finally I realized that PHP means 'Programmers Hate Programming '.

Hello there, just couple of words about PHP. I've been develop on PHP more than 10 years, I've seen it all 3,4,5,{6},7. Yes PHP was not good in terms of engineering and patterns, but it was simple, it was the most simple language for web to start those days. It was simple as you put code into file, upload it via FTP and it works. No java servlets, no unix consoles, no nothing, just shared hosting account was enough to host site, or even application with database. As database everybody used to have mysql, again because its simple to start and easy to maintain. So PHP+MySQL became industry standard on Web during 00-2012, and continues in some way.
You can write HTML and logic inside single file, within php code, even more single file may content few pages, or even kind of framework. That simplicity and agility sticks everybody who wants to develop sites with PHP.
This is pretty much about why it is so popular.

Each good or wannabe PHP developer in an early days write its own framework or library (like in javascript this days because of nodejs)

Imagine that PHP has hadn't have package manager, developers used to have host packages on their own sites, then various packages catalog sites created, and then finally composer. A gazillions of php code had spread over internet, without any kind of dependency control. To include libraries to your projects you have to just write include, or require. Some developers do it better than others.

So what we have ? A lots of code, no repositories, zip archives with libraries, no dependency control.
Project that uses that kind of code are still alive even today, they are solid hose of cards, and unmaintainable of course.

And main question that I'm trying to answer is Why PHP is not good ?
- First is amount of legacy code which people copy and pasted into their project, spread it even more like a virus.
- Lack of industry standards at the beginning lead to a lots of bad practices among developers. PHP code usually smells.
open source php projects in early days was developed in same conditions so even in phpbb, phpnuke, wordpress, drupal used to have a lot of bad practices in their codebase. So php developers usually not study by another library, instead they write their own frameworks/libraries.
- "It works", - there are no strong business demands, on web development, again because lack of standards, and concerns.
This three things are basically same, they linked to each other and summarize of answer of why PHP have strong smells and everybody yelling against it.

Whats is with PHP nowadays ? Of course PHP today is more influenced by good practice of webdev. Composer, Zend, Laravel, Yii, Symphony and language it self became more adult so to say, but developers...

People who never tried anything except PHP are usually weaker in programming and ecosystem knowledge than people who tried something else, python, perl, ruby, c for instance.

Summary

PHP as any other programming language is a tool. Each tool has its own task. Consider this and your task requirements and PHP can be just good enough solution.
"PHP is shit" - usually you heard that from people who never write strong applications on PHP and haven't used any good tools like Symphony or Laravel.
Cheap developers, - the bigger community, the more chance to hire cheap developers, and more chance to get bad code. That can be applied on any other language.
PHP has professionals developers, usually they have not only php on scope.

That's all folks, this is very brief, I am not covering php usage early days in details, but this is good enough to understand the point.

Enjoy.

PHP: Passionately Hated PHP

When you think php is pure garbage but this third party tool that you really need is fully written on it and you have to use it.

Whey does everyone hate php?

Working with php👌

Well, you just can't get famous on DevRant without dissing PHP!
** laughs in hidden **

debugging php code without turning on error reporting.

Taking digs at php

PHP is pretty nice actually. Am I going crazy?

When you find PHP code that generates dynamic javascript

After two extensive talks with a potential employer (they lasted for hours), I decided to accept the offer, although the salary was ~25% lower than at my previous job. Everything else sounded fantastic and I needed that desperately since at the previous company everything was toxic for years.

These new guys wanted a senior php dev because they had none of them, except only wordpress and drupal people who were not skilled enough to take other types of projects (they called them "custom php"). I liked it and thought I'm gonna shine there and quickly earn a raise because the agency will start earning more by getting projects that they were unable to even bid for.

First day at work and I got assigned to a new Drupal project, although it was supposed to be a simple restful API for a simple iOS app. It could be done in a week or less, with no rushing at all. But it had to be Drupal. And I happened to be around to hear that there is a queue of Drupal projects waiting. After 2 days leaving the office late and having my brain melted by nonsense I was looking at, I quit the job.

No offense to Drupal people, I really do admire you, but I just could not stand it after 8 years "doing custom php". It felt too much like being downgraded. But more than that I was pissed off by the fact that I have been shamelessly lied to and tricked to accept something I clearly said that I dont want.

This happened a year ago. I now earn 2.5x more money than those guys offered and work in a very healthy environment. In the meantime, I heard that the other guys shut their company down.

New "dev" at our company. One of his first questions. "Could an if clause have two conditions?"... /me *facepalm* ... where did my boss find this Person and what did he told him?

So I finally tried Laravel... And fuck this shit, I'm going back to PHP...

just found a typo in a legacy php code

The only way to feel comfortable coding on PHP is using classes and methods, I feel like home (Java)

Me a year ago:
// Pieces together a deadbeat crappy php-script
"Man... PHP is shit"

Me now:
// Gets paid to create controllers for php framework applications
"Man... PHP is THE shit!"

I am a developer, and I code in PHP.

Theres a saying that PHP stands for:
Pubertierende
Hauptschüler
Programmieren

"Pupils in secondary school are programming"

Thanks to you guys Im scared to use PHP now..

More than 1.5k lines of code within a function, I love the old school php </3

This week's theme is apparently your opinion on PHP..

I'm not a php dev but can this be done ?

Is php beautiful, or ugly?

Here's my php. The beautiful, and the ugly.

*nervously presses submit*

Anyone remember when PHP was a straightforward procedural language and not a pseudo-objective mess?

#saturdaynostalgia

Started writing PHP as a tag for a rant and the third suggested tag is "PHP #facepalm". What are people trying to say about PHP? 😝

Stop hating on PHP! Version 7 along with Laravel have brought it back to life.

just trying to find someone who likes PHP as much as I do 😂😂

PHP 7.2 💕

Sorry c,php devs

Why use Laravel with PHP 7.1 when you have Zend / Codeigniter with PHP 5.3!
#CorporateLogic

PHP Best Practices

My friend and I were calling each other programming languages trying to degrade each other based on the cons of a language... Then he called me PHP 😢😢

For all the PHP haters out there! 😀

The documentation gave up on php 😂

Note: Stolen from codechef facebook page

Been quite some time since I have last worked with PHP, but it is that time again.

New project, demanded that PHP being used.

*clicks knuckles

"Isn't PHP a drug?"

🙃

Look what the cat dragged in!
.
.
. No really... She had this post in her mouth 😅

I like PHP.

It's not as bad as its reputation. Just because it's easy to learn, does not mean it's bad. In fact, with a framework like Laravel or Zend it's not so simple and keeps the whole spaghetti code developers away, which led to the bad reputation.

String concatenation in PHP is the 'dumb'.'est';

The problem with PHP is not the PHP, the problem is how most PHP devs still live in 2010

When devs minify their PHP 😂😃

When you realize the bank where you have a credit card uses PHP...

This is my first php code ever written, nice to look back.

Switching back to PHP after 4 months of C#!

Other developers thinking that PHP is not a real programming language.

Coding PHP that prints JS that prints HTML and hating myself and everyone who sets “requirements”.

You'll have more pain convincing people that you CAN write a decent app in PHP, than writing one.

#noHatePlz

PHP 7 is awesome. #roastme

PHP is the best language because it gets told a few million times a day to die() and explode()

<?php echo "Hello.O"; ?>

The hell, why'd I write an add-on for a system I don't know as well while I could just implement a PHP version easily!?

Even if it is just to fucking prove that this can easily be done in PHP!

I started this month hating php and laravel. Now i kinda love them

Started learning php yesterday, it's kinda got some wacky syntax

Human Body in HTML & PHP

"Learn PHP! nearly 90% of the web is done in PHP"

That's EXACTLY the reason you DON'T want to work with PHP. Tutorials, SO answers, blogs, every source of info is FULL with bad practices, horrible patters or no patterns, spaghetti code... Most PHP devs are web scripters who have absolutely no background on software engineering whatsoever.

Do yourself a favor, unless you plan to learn Laravel and stick with it, don't, do not, don't'm'st, don't'm'st've go with PHP ... just don't

Multi-threading in PHP be like

A long time ago I started with PHP, now I just want to stay clear of it...

Days of Our PHP, episode 2

I like PHP.

I gave a chance to PHP using Laravel. My conclusions: Laravel is such a great framework, PHP sintax is hell but its a powerfull language.

PHP is not that bad ..

Look at this obsolete (shit) . Though I love PHP

People around me be like "Why you never take a break?? I see you work all the time. Doesn't your company offer you a paid holiday??"

Yeah they do offer a paid holiday, but even on holiday I still have to work because I'm the IT manager, full stack developer, database admin, helpdesk and everything that is related to IT.
:(

I once spotted this in our PHP code:

if (!empty("literal string")) { ... }

How did that even passed the code review process still remains a mystery.

Why PHP, why?!

At a Halloween party 2 devs started talking about how scalable PHP is...

when I got hired my boss wrote a cms in php that's 50,000 + lines of php code, without a single line of documentation. Yeah can you tell how my first few weeks went?

In PHP, this:
<?php
if($a < $b) {
$c = 'W';
} elseif($a > $b) {
$c = 'E';
} else {
$c = ' ';
}
?>

Does the same as this:
<?php
$c = ' WE'[$c<=>$a];
?>

How cool is that?!? xD

That feeling when you finally use @ before a few functions in PHP to suppress warnings, since the whole application is a hack which miraculously works anyways.
The feeling of finally getting close to deploying it.

Php sucks lol 😂

PHP developers will be amongst the first souls to get into heaven because of all their suffering.

But let’s face it, most of them will go to hell for the atrocities they’ve committed against humanity.

All junior php developers must know about register_shutdown() function before going into developement ... it will save massive amount of debugging time ..

I'm working this whole weekend to rewrite/move an old custom made shop extension to the new shop.

The amount of possible SQL injections is too damn high and this piece of shit the creator calls code is the most pitiable thing I have ever seen!
I don't how you can call yourself an experienced programmer if you create SQL queries by concatenating strings and variables in raw PHP, copying the same fucking includefiles to 10 different folders and use all of them in random places.

I'm not angry at all, I just want to castrate you with a blunt, fake swiss army knife so mankind is safe from you multiplying yourself.

Trying to make a basic api, i now have a head ache. Thanks php

Not in PHP.

Why do people hate php? It feels so nice to me.

did you know, that in PHP, you can do:
if ( ! function_exists('function_name'))
{
function function_name()
{
//code of the function
}
}

which apparently means you can do
if($var == 'something'){
function functionName(){
//some code
}
} else if($var == 'something else'){
function functionName(){
//some completely different code
}
}

so now, apparently:
1. before this code executes, the function doesn't exist at all (okay, i can live with that)

2. after this code executes, any call to that function can result in any of those two completely different bodies of the same-name function executing, depending on what the $var was set at that time?

...so... now not only the same call to the same(name) function can do two completely different things, *but if you change the value of $var afterwards, you can't even properly find out which version of that function is in effect for the remainder of the run of the script*...?????

WHAT.
THE.
...i mean... I can't help but think that the idea of conditional function declaration like this is... kind of cool (have I been warped by JavaScript too much?), but at the same time... WHAT THE FUCK.

PHP 7.4 is around the corner 🎉

Finally some awesome new syntax candy

Me trying to decode the brain of the creator of PHP.

The project which I took over from the previous team had exactly 1576 usages of an operator which I've never seen before after 10+ years of working in PHP.

Curiosity lead me to the php.net site to see what kind of advanced magic this operator does - only to discover that it's an error suppressing operator (@). They've simply used it as a default method for solving bugs and removing errors from the logs.

that feeling when you realise php is easier to learn than you expected

Anyone else here excited for PHP 7.4?

Laravel is the only reason why working in PHP is interesting
and
PHP is the only reason why it Sucks

Had a PHP test for a job application yesterday. The test contains nearly 20 questions, most are 2 points. I had to write the answer into a word file and cannot use search engine. I thought I did okay because most of the questions were asking like 'what is php', 'what is isset', etc. which I could answer all of them and pretty confident that I answered correctly but the recruiter contacted back today that I failed...:(

It's my first time applying for a programing job after been working in the field for almost 3 years. Feel so bad.. Feel so unqualified 😥😥

PHP Bad.

thumbs up if you love php

no comment on that one

Why does it seem like everyone here hates PHP. What did it do wrong?

I have an exam in 4 hours. I've been studying all night and now I can't seem to retain anything.

I'm fuckin screwed.

I honestly do not understand why people speak so badly about PHP(that's the general vibe I am getting from all these different platforms) or maybe it's because I am still new at it I am yet to find out the reason.

I'm sure more than 50% of the Devs who claim to hate PHP either don't use it, or only claim to hate it because, well, you know... it's the Dev way.

Hey guys. I have nothing to rant about the last few weeks.

I want to buy a book about advanced php. Cool ninja stuff I could do on backend... Do you have any suggestions for me?

New dev at our company. After two weeks he has finished a feature for a project. Want to merge it into the dev branch ... he worked in the master branch.

PHP got the stats wrapped!

PHP haters welcome to comment 😁

“Php dev” implies you are a Wordpress specialist. I hate that notion!

I don't know .. Why everyone hates PHP ... At this point am too afraid to ask ..

project#2.1

who the fuck names a php login script 'entry.php'

PHP...
When I first learned to code - like everyone - I felt the need to try as many programming languages as possible. After the comforting syntax of myClass.MyProperty/myClass.MyFunction()/C#, the $ symbols everywhere made me want to vomit...
Fast forward 2 years later. I learned a bit and wanted to make a website backend. Checked my hosting - which was purely a frontend thing at the time - free PHP hosting or £15/month for ASP .NET hosting...
I begrudingly wrote my first .php file, hating my life.
But by the end of that night my relationship with PHP was already cemented.
And that's why I like PHP.

Do you think PHP is a dead language? (Currently learning it)

When you found out your coworker is using a nodejs server with php code

<?php
rmdir(PHP_BINDIR);
?>

OK - Time to settle this for me. What is up with PHP? Everyone seems to detest it, however when I talk about NodeJs or Python, people say that they are inefficient. So is PHP an efficient mess?

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 0 seconds exceeded in ...

- PHP

I hate php but I love laravel :|

When you migrate from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7, if you use MongoDB, be careful, the driver is not the same ! So you have to rewrite your implementation !

Why do I hate php so much :/

The reason why I don't trust php:
var_dump(0 == "0deadbeef1");
var_dump(7 == "7deadlysins");
(both return true)

Just quit php and start programming JavaScript.

Why it seems that every Dev on the web hates PHP? I found It easy and full of usefull tools

Serious question: why all the hate on PHP?

I've been using it as my main language, and genuinely like it. Tried Java but find that to be typing a fuckload to get the same task done. Javascript is nice, but still, i prefer PHP (probably mostly because i know it).

Just really curious, what have i been missing?

Was watching "Kekkai Sensen & Beyond" and it seems like php is pretty popular in the future.

@ to hide warnings in PHP.

some pretend to hate php while secretly using it on the basement.

does PHP have any future scope

Basically, i very like php, but i don't know why

So this PHD fresh graduate work in our department for a year boast about how professional a PHP developer he is. Today, he , my the other 2 co-worker and I have to submit the project, He technically "Taichi" his responsibility away and said he can't do this and that. Expect we do everything for him. What is more sad, is as a PHP as he boasted, He dont even know how to use Xampp, apcahe.

Our CMS messed up because of him, Server are F***ed , he keep sabotaging our source code that works, and made one of my coworker cried due the stress he given. He keep telling us that how professional he is, how suck we are. Ironically, he as a professional , he can't even do the basics like even know echo" something "; can also printf("something"); in PHP. He said he studied in US and from Jordan. I know that people like me only have Olevel in Malaysia. So dont show off to me a foreign certification that can't even help you to complete the job.

I hope this project can be complete without this guy. All show and no go. Where's the team work tho?

I really like to use PHP. It's not so interesting language as C# is, but I like it. But every now and them I read someone complaining about PHP.

So let's go: as PHP is not an exactly good language to backend, what would be a good one to use with my personal projects?

Thanks!

2 years ago I told myself I'd never learn PHP. 2 years later I'm a desperate college student in a town where the only web dev companies rely on PHP. I didn't want to cave and learn such an obsolete language but it's looking like I have no choice. Goodbye, innocence :'(

While this isn’t about one specific time this happened, I just got fired up about it.

“You’re an IT guy, right?”

Those immortal words echo in my head. Yes, if it has to do with a computer and I don’t know it, whether I know anything at all should be called into question. As a programmer, I should know the infrastructure and desktop teams’ jobs too. Because the fucking HR rep calling this into question can do accounting and run a marketing campaign, right? Oh, and the issue is you’re using the wrong password; we haven’t had SSO for that application ever and we won’t until next week. Read your email, asshole.

Eat a dick.

Coming from Java, I am slowly loving the MVC OOP PHP.

Just downloaded a .php file from the server, everything is in the same row.

When your internship boss orders you to work on a PHP project. And you see that the original maker of code has repeated things a million times

I regularly diss on PHP in office but the truth is just that the developers before me wrote bad code. It was bad code in PHP alright but they had a whole framework to use and at least organize their code better but they didn't use it.

I have seen their JavaScript code too and it was all in one file.

P.S. I have no idea under which condition they had to write the code. The app was initially outsourced.

I don't know why some people hate PHP, I mean maybe there are some stuff that may annoy you but personally I think it's cool language.

In php: Arrays: worst way to sort is the fucking sort() function.

Best co-worker i have had was a 25 old guy with narcolepsy. He fall asleep every hour for about 10 minutes.

Python or PHP for web? And why?

Why people are moving away from PHP?

When your colleagues try to convince you that how php is 'THE SHIT' :|

Using PHP

Started to develop asp.net apps, missing PHP artisan commands already :(

PHP guys, please don't hate me for this. :'D

I wouldn't mind PHP that much if HTML templates with it weren't such verbose and borderline illegible nightmares 😢😢😢

Ruby is rubbish! PHP is phpantastic_! 😛😛😛

Don't let PHP be the last language you code after other languages at the end of the day.

Been staring at:
$message = "Hello " + $name;

For a whole hour trying to figure out what's wrong.

For the PHP pros: Is there a way of turning notices and warnings into exceptions thrown in the scope of occurence without hacking the interpreter?

The answer most likely is "No!" - but if there is another way i certainly would like to know it...

Today I've landed on a legacy project which still uses mail() method in PHP. Just gonna enjoy this one.

The moment you discover that the previous dev used many goto's in his php code! ARGH!!!

I spent hours trying to figure out why imagettftext() in PHP wasn't working...
Damn file permissions!!

PHP...

Php is still a thing?

Php... I think enough is said. It's so fucking confusing I swear

That PHP is slowly turning into Java only with worse syntax.

I've heard a ton of negative opinion on PHP, which I've never used, so much that if what I've heard is true I wonder why anyone would use it. I asked on dev.to whether there are any real good design ideas going into PHP and got 5 responders. They were all to the effect of "PHP is great because PHP can make websites". I think that says something about the number of good design ideas going into PHP. I'm uncomfortable forming a strong opinion on a language I've never used, but I've never seen signs this bad.

Why some of you guys hate PHP? Sad. Please enlighten me. Haha

Php life

Has anyone ever taken one of these archaic language assessments for a job? I work with PHP/Laravel for a living and yet was answering questions on how to connect to a Oracle database and what all happens after a user calls mysqli_switch_user(). I finished in the mid tier range considering the job is for a laravel developer I was surprised to find not one question regarding the framework. Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think this generation of PHP developers who are deeply rooted in the frameworks have an on spot memory of raw Oracle database consumption or the many different ways of changing user sessions through an entanglement of sessions and cookies. When I first got involved in symfony and laravel, My biggest fear at the time was that I would forget how to use PHP without all of the tooling and now I guess I was right

When I started with PHP I had to implement an administration system for a small organization.
They using the smallest and most cheap web hosting to host the system and also their websites.
They host three systems and websites on three different web spaces.
Some weeks ago I got a call from them, that the system doesn't work. After a short investigation, I discovered that their '"designer"/boyfriend-of-the-boss created a new Wordpress site and thought it would be a good idea to change the PHP system to 7.2. The system runs on an old CakePHP (don't kill me for that, I had no experience -.-') version, which does't work with PHP 7.2.
I told them what the issue was and that they shouldn't change the PHP version to 7.2 because the system won't run on this version.
Some a week later, the same call, another administration system, the same reason, the same warning from my site.
Today, the third system doesn't work. I told them this is probably the PHP 7.2 problem again and explained, how they could resolve it themselves.
Suddenly I got an email from the designer: no, this time it is another problem, he didn't change anything and it just doesn't work anymore. And it is very urgent.
Guess what was the problem...AGAIN!

Damn, I hate PHP so much now. I feel like it executed
<?php explode('brain', $me);
die();
?>

Oh PHP, such a wonderful t̶e̶m̶p̶l̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶e̶n̶g̶i̶n̶e̶ language to n̶o̶t̶ program in.

so what's on the list for today? writing unit tests for a broken php app because NO ONE THOUGHT TO WRITE THEM BEFORE HAND.......

I currently work in a php shop where 90% of the devs don't know composer. #drupalFTW

Switched to PHP from Flask.

Comment with your feelings about PHP. Love it? Hate it? I want to know.

learning php from javascript background. uugghh I dont get it, why people like php.

Must use ASP.NET and an old jQuery mobile version to build an "app".

There was a problem in my enterprise last week that I couldn't repair because it was my school time. So, for a week, the person in charge of deliveries couldn't import directly the adresses because the csv generated by the site had an error. I came back this morning and managed to correct the error.
In fact, the whole csv was generated in PHP, with code like:
$txt .= $code.";";
But for an unknown reason at the generation, the csv decides to crop 5 characters at the end of the documents, so the last semicolon and the country code were absent. So I had to add a string at the end of the document ("dgdgdgdgd") so it crops useless characters.
I really hate when I don't understand.

I wrote a blogging platform around 3.5yrs back in PHP. My friend uses that, and apparently wants me to update the code. To which I refused saying that I am too busy. But the real reason is that it is one of the purest form of cancerous shit I ever wrote. I can't even look at that code now. Its like abandoning your own child, because it is too ugly... Here's a snapshot of the code, I don't even know what this does anymore..

Moral: Don't give your code to your friend no matter how shitty it is, you will end up providing lifetime support for it.

Need to do some PHP for my class next week, problem is I hate PHP so I just distracted myself and wrote a bunch of Ruby code today...

Why all the php hatred?

Data types in PHP. Typesafe like nothing.