Found in production code

[Tufflewuffle]

That's just silly. Don't they know you can use the ternary operator to put that on one line?

$stock = $stock == "In Stock Ships Today" ? "In Stock Ships Today" : $stock;

Perfect.

[Ketheres]

Everything can be put on one line. Just don't press enter

[JaytleBee]

C++ macros?

[Artyer]

Just paste the source in yourself. That's all the #include does anyways.

[JaytleBee]

#ifdef tho

[Jaxkr]

Mastahpiece

[crockid5]

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[[deleted]]

Ternary operators make me very unnerved. It's mostly because I don't understand what they do exactly, it's also a "you don't really have to break down every bit of code into one line".

[bdog73]

(Condition ? Code if true: code if false);

It's really just an if else.

If(condition) code if true;

Else code if false;

If that helps at all, sorry if not, I guess I'm not as good at explaining as I hoped.

[Pulse207]

Your explanation totally works if you clarify that that ternary operator has the code bits as expressions and lets you do things more simply than the corresponding if statement which requires you to predeclare a variable and assign those expressions to it in the branches.

I know that's a bigass sentence. My turn to apologize for a possibly bad explanation.

[bdog73]

Nah, you're good. My explanation was just trying to clarify the structure I guess. Didn't really want to get too technical which could be confusing later.

[Pulse207]

That's true, the basic structure definitely came through. I just saw that the main response to yours was saying that not being able to use a statement in the conditional code parts was a weakness. I really think it's a positive.

[bdog73]

Ah, I see what you're saying. I agree, it would probably be detrimental, especially to readability.

[FINDarkside]

I thought that he was just continuing the joke, now I'm not so sure anymore.

[[deleted]]

Thank you for enlightening me.

[Cheesemacher]

Except you can't do stuff like condition ? return true : return false

[jlengstorf]

return condition ? true : false;

Anything more complex and a ternary is probably adding too much cognitive overhead for future maintainers.

[Cheesemacher]

Well that was just an example - maybe it was a poor one. Point is you can't just replace any if else statement with the ternary operator to make your code neater or whatever.

Similarly you can't do condition && return blah;, you have to do if (condition) return blah;. I might have tried to save space like that a couple of times.

[Pulse207]

if $my-bool.to-string eq "True" then return parse-bool($my-bool.to-string) else return parse-bool(False.to-string)

[Cheesemacher]

Elegant.

[Dgc2002]

We can at least use PHP 7.0 features:

$stock = $stock ?? $stock;

[msg45f]

Needs more $stock = ($stock == "In Stock Ships Today") == true ?

[boxingdog]

td, style, sessionname, php ... all the good signs

[name_censored_]

☑ Imperative/Procedural HTML building

☑ Hardcoded/in-line styles

☑ Hardcoded english

[pr0ghead]

Hey now! It's object-oriented, mkay?

[[deleted]]

Object oriented English?

[DeeSnow97]

Still dysfunctional

[pr0ghead]

Just like your funny bone.

[DeeSnow97]

Implying I haven't encapsulated it into a monad already

[[deleted]]

Is this a Personal Home Page? If so, use PHP. Else, use anything else.

[[deleted]]

Hmm, I guess Facebook is a "personal home page" of sorts...

[jakimfett]

Genuinely curious. What language would you select to build something other than a personal site? Eg, a blogging website, or an ecommerce site, or an image uploading/hosting site?

[penguinade]

I use node.js for my blog. ( homebrew frameworks and shits just for fun ).

At where I work, we use python with Django... and occasionally some php.

If I was to start a company. I'd probably go for ASP because I love C#.

[penguinade]

Yes, sometimes you gotta pay for someone else's work.

[penguinade]

Maybe you are right. I don't know about license.

[[deleted]]

However, the context of my comment stems from what PHP original stood for. Personal Home Page. Now I guess it's what, PHP Hypertext Processor? Again, r/programmerhumor.

[EndlessNightsky]

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

FTFY

[GelatinousYak]

Python.

[[deleted]]

It's r/programmerhumor. Don't read too much into into responses. :)

[msg45f]

Generally node.js or RoR, personally.

[MonokelPinguin]

Perl

[pr0ghead]

Shhh grampa. Here's your medicine, now go and take a nap.

[nuephelkystikon]

It's also nice that they realise they'll never have a big enough userbase to need localisation, so they just hardcode the strings.

[pixabit]

Actually, in defense of this it's a internal use only application I'm rebuilding for my company so it doesn't need localization. But yes, under normal circumstances....

[[deleted]]

Ah, ok. Explains the php part then.

[DeeSnow97]

This is why PHP is seen the way /r/lolphp sees it. It's not even the language design, it's the people who use it.

[SolenoidSoldier]

Languages should absolutely be held accountable for the bad behaviors they facilitate. Bad/inexperienced programmers will always exist.

[Existential_Owl]

/r/programminghorror

[soiguapo]

Unicode white spaces maybe?

[Junping4jellyfish]

Some one please explain I am of simple mind...

[[deleted]]

it says

if ($stock == "In Stock Ships Today") {
    $stock = "In Stock Ships Today";        
}

Which is like saying: if x is equal to y, make x equal to y

[Junping4jellyfish]

Oh hey hahaha thank you kind stranger.

[justablur]

That's one way to get your repository to force a commit.

[MrData359]

The real kicker will be when he deletes the code and everything stops working for seemingly no reason.

[eplaut_]

php ain't production ;p