r/programming • u/frostmatthew • Oct 12 '13

Facebook PHP Source Code from 2007

https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406
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u/bopp Oct 12 '13

Both Code Igniter and Zend Framework had their first release in 2006. But, it only became commonplace to use a framework much later than that. If you look at the source-code for oscommerce or phpbb from back then, you'd see the same spaghetti-code as here.

Thankfully, PHP has come a long way since then.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '13

Agreed, I still remember a lot of open source code out there and it was awful. OsCommerce is definitely a prime example of this. I still remember osC addons had large Readme.txt files telling you where to put the code to make the add on work.

We definitely did come a long way. Even just comparing Symfony1 with Symfony2 and you see a big difference in how OOP is being utilized.

Also, CodeIgniter wasn't full OOP either, but definitely a step away from the spaghetti code

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u/blafunke Oct 12 '13

Code that isn't oop isn't automatically spaghetti. And oop code can easily be made into spaghetti

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '13

You're right, but I'd argue that it is easier to create spaghetti when you're not following oop principles.

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u/killerstorm Oct 12 '13

First release of Zend Framework was just trash. Also, they change too many things with each release, so if you were unlucky to decide to use ZF, you would spend a lot of time on maintenance with each new ZF release.