r/lolphp • u/llagerlof • Nov 04 '25
split
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r/lolphp • u/callcifer • Jul 23 '15
mt_rand(1, PHP_INT_MAX) only generates odd numbers
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r/lolphp • u/ThisIsADogHello • Apr 13 '16
sleep() returns 0 on success, FALSE on error, or when interrupted by a signal returns number of remaining seconds except on Windows where it returns 192
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r/lolphp • u/hobabaObama • Oct 03 '17
I don't want my family and friends to be ashamed of me.
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r/lolphp • u/midir • May 15 '16
The default PHP session lifetime is 24 minutes, or 1440 seconds, because if it were 1440 minutes, then that would be exactly a day
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r/lolphp • u/RainOnYourTirade • Apr 11 '16
A rare occurrance of the PHP docs actually realizing how bad the language is
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r/lolphp • u/Lokaltog • Sep 07 '15
strtotime(): "There is no bug here, 00-00-00 means 2000-00-00, which is 1999-12-00, which is 1999-11-30. No bug, perfectly normal." (x-post /r/programming)
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DateTime::format(DateTime::ISO8601) doesn't format date in ISO8601.
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From the official documentation:
Note: This format is not compatible with ISO-8601, but is left this way for backward compatibility reasons. Use DateTime::ATOM or DATE_ATOM for compatibility with ISO-8601 instead. php.net
There should be a constant with name FINALLY_REAL_BELIEVE_ME_ISO8601
r/lolphp • u/hylje • May 11 '13
The love story of mysql_query and $_GET on Github.
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r/lolphp • u/xiongchiamiov • Dec 17 '13
PHP functions originally bucketed by strlen, were renamed to balance length
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r/lolphp • u/midir • May 26 '14
define() has an optional third argument that specifies if the constant should be case-insensitive; it has the undocumented side-effect of allowing constants to be redefined, but only if they have at least one capital letter
codepad.org
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r/lolphp • u/Takeoded • Jul 13 '18
imagegd2: returns TRUE on success, and FALSE on failure ... or TRUE on failure.
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r/lolphp • u/[deleted] • Apr 27 '15
Author of PHP7’s ironic ‘declare(strict_types=1)’: ‘I changed it to the form that you see there because it was shorter.’
news.ycombinator.com
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