yaoi prophet posted:

Tumblr lets users reblog/like posts they see on their dashboard. When you look at an individual post, it also shows you the last 50 or so 'notes' (reblogs, likes, and replies) on that post, not only by that user, but by all people who reblogged that post. Pretty interesting, right? Sounds like the sort of data you might want to visualize if you're into that sort of thing.

quote:

<a class="more_notes_link" href="#" onclick="this.style.display='none';document.getElementById('notes_loading_POSTID').style.display = 'inline';if(window.ActiveXObject)var tumblrReq=new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');else if(window.XMLHttpRequest)var tumblrReq=new XMLHttpRequest();else return false;tumblrReq.onreadystatechange=function(){if(tumblrReq.readyState==4){var notes_html=tumblrReq.responseText.split('<!-- START '+'NOTES -->')[1].split('<!-- END '+'NOTES -->')[0];if(window.tumblrNotesLoaded)if(tumblrNotesLoaded(notes_html)==false)return;var more_notes_link=document.getElementById('more_notes_POSTID');var notes=more_notes_link.parentNode;notes.removeChild(more_notes_link);notes.innerHTML+=notes_html;if(window.tumblrNotesInserted)tumblrNotesInserted(notes_html);}};tumblrReq.open('GET','/notes/POSTID/REBLOG_KEY?from_c=',true);tumblrReq.send();return false;">Show more notes</a><span id="notes_loading_POSTID" style="display:none;">Loading...</span>

Monkeyseesaw posted:

Rule #1 of web development: Browsers don't scream about *anything*.

NotShadowStar posted:

code:

strong, b { font-weight: 100; }

Chairman Steve posted:

Isn't this part of PHP's API for interacting with MySQL, and not inherently part of MySQL itself?

Oh, PHP, a language that lets you define when you really mean it.

Profane Obituary! posted:

this is what blame is for.

Internet Janitor posted:

Good luck punching 80 characters on a card- where the hell do you plan on putting the identification sequence? Most compilers don't even accept more than 72 characters. I suppose next you guys are going to tell me you waste space on multi-character variable names.

NotShadowStar posted:

I've been working with Drupal a hell of a lot the last six months. The core developers behind it seem like reasonably intelligent people and understand PHP is a wretched language and keep it to the very basics: arrays, functions, very basic objects and it works okay-ish, if not excessively verbose. Unfortunately when I have to delve into PHP land I remember how god awful it its. It took me an entire afternoon to parse a CSV file because neither str_getcsv or fgetcsv could figure out new lines properly so it always just split CSV files into one gigantic flat array. Something that would take minutes to do in any other language.

Presenting the PHP global function namespace

e: HOW FAR DOWN THE HOLE DO YOU WANT TO GO

Wheany posted:

var hasChanged = false;

hasChanged |= module1.hasChanged() |
module2.hasChanged() |
module3.hasChanged() |
module4.hasChanged();

if(hasChanged){
module1.reload();
module2.reload();
module3.reload();
module4.reload();
}



Spoilers: Bitwise vs logical OR.

Not a great horror, but if you are going to reload every module anyway, you might as well make use of short circuiting.

Monkeyseesaw posted:

Well I was being glib to some degree.

I completely agree as to the reasons why it was given a C-like syntax. But it makes people think of it as a C-like language when it isn't. I think that's one of the reasons why JS didn't really come into its own until ~2006 or so, though again arguably it would have never caught on at all if not for its syntax.


The general consensus these days is JavaScript is becoming the "assembler of the web".


Hah, I recently had to implement a 3-column layout in CSS that could be flexible as to which column-ordering, width, etc, and the closing series of divs looks exactly like that. CSS is a horror from start to finish.


edit: I want to bitch about this more and the stairway of divs is a good illustration of that. CSS was a loving disaster the second it left the gate because for anything more complicated then a very basic document layout you have to add elements just to get the styling rules targeted correctly. So you end up with these horrible nested monstrosities just so you can get this float to relatively position itself next to that list or whatever.

Can you imagine if UI toolkits worked this way? That if you wanted to make a dialog button position itself in relation to the dialog message text you had to wrap it in 6 levels of panels or group boxes just to apply a series of esoteric positioning rules? They'd scrap that poo poo immediately.

There is a vast gap between the minimal semantic markup it takes to describe for example a news article with navigation menu and the actual markup you need so you can write the set of CSS rules that makes it look half-way decent. That's the very definition of a failed styling language and it should have been immediately obvious to anyone paying attention.

I loving hate CSS so much.

nielsm posted:

But how else could you write financial applications if you don't have a way for decimal numbers!

yaoi prophet posted:

The next time I really want to gently caress with a web dev I'm using this trick on them.

Zamujasa posted:

Holy poo poo, that TVTropes page is amazing. I wonder how many terrible hacks have been added to the source to do these sorts of things, since they definitely don't seem to be standard markup.


It's certainly a better analogy than rape.

Wheany posted:

If you want to be a cool dude, roll your own json encoder in php. Then make everything a string. And also, don't bother quoting every name in an object, you're a cool dude, after all.

code:

{butts:
    [{
    "farts":"7", 
    "poop":"null"
     }]
}

baquerd posted:

I counter with

code:

$sqlQuery = "select * from THREAD_" . $_GET["threadid"]

Rainbow Pony Deluxe posted:

Is this how you say "Come at me, bro" in PHP?

Zamujasa posted:

That quote reminds me of people who almost exhibit common sense, but make a sharp turn into a wall. For example, it really is possible to pull off a man-in-the-middle attack, but... not quite like the way he's showing.

The bit about trying to foil keyloggers is hilarious, though, and really comes out of nowhere as completely silly advice.

nielsm posted:

phpFreeChat.
It's an AJAX-based webchat thing, obviously with a PHP backend.
I don't know much about its internals, I just know that the version I'm exposed to doesn't work on IE9 unless you enable some compatibility modes.

They like dynamically generating stuff, so they make sure to dynamically generate stuff to dynamically generate more stuff.
In particular, the IE9 problem is caused by some (more or less) dynamically generated CSS not being inserted properly on the page. (It does work in IE8 or IE7 compatibility modes.)

How the CSS is supposed to be generated:
Some running JS dynamically fetches some PHP page.
Said PHP page dynamically generates some JS, which is eval()d by the fetching thing. (This is not JSON, it's straight JS.)
This dynamically generated JS contains a bunch of code that builds a hashmap of CSS selectors to CSS rules. (Nothing is dynamically built here, it's just plain strings.)
This hashmap is then iterated over and every key/value pair is fed into a class that uses DOM to insert singular text nodes in a dynamically inserted Style element in the head.

I wonder what's wrong with <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="whatever.php">.

It also makes extensive use of UA detection rather than feature detection.

pokeyman posted:

Would it be too generous to suggest that someone forgot to add if (debug) around that garbage?

The Gripper posted:

What on earth is it trying to do?

Wheany posted:

hg init
hg add
hg commit

or

git init
git add .
git commit

This is literally how easy it is to have version control these days. You don't have to administer servers (until maybe later if you want to make distribution a bit easier). And this works on Windows and Linux (and I assume Mac)

Contero posted:

yaoi prophet posted:

I like the repeating ICAgICAgICAg. I bet they're using EBC because the person who implemented their encryption doesn't know the first thing about block ciphers.

trex eaterofcadrs posted:

Any reason you're not using solr or elasticsearch? They do all that kind of crap for you.

Otto Skorzeny posted:

a shitload of weed.

Zamujasa posted:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" />

Gazpacho posted:

As the internet creates a fetish subculture for everything, so does project hosting create...

Harmony Framework - PHP is now in your browser!

(Inactive since 2009 thankfully, but it's only a matter of time.)

Internet Janitor posted:

There's also https://github.com/aseemk/json5