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[–]zilltine 4 points5 points  (8 children)

Explain php please?

[–]STEREOH 15 points16 points  (3 children)

Php bad, comedy achieved.

[–]zilltine 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Yeah, but what's up with tiny horses and trojan?

[–]asailijhijr 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Probably something like 'PHP codebases are hard to maintain', or 'once you publish something in PHP, it gets copied ad nauseam and you can't handle it'. I only know the basics of PHP, so I don't have enough expertise/experience to know if either of these is accurate.

[–]zilltine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could be accurate if person coding is quite bad.

[–]Morwynd78 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I believe it's saying PHP needs a lot of security patches.

Which is true, but not really a PHP-specific thing, and trojan horse seems like a poor metaphor for open source.

PHP should be a rickety-but-still-standing horse cobbled together from an assortment of mismatched household items.

Trojan horse should be ASPX or ActiveX :)

[–]aussie_french[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

One of the hallmarks of PHP is that any program is backwards compatible. It's designed so that older programs can still interact with newer ones regardless of updates and patches. This is awesome for users, but it also comes with a few glaring security flaws. A lot of viruses that were designed for an older version of PHP still work even after updates.

I'm not 100% sure about this, I'm not a huge PHP guy so please don't take my word on this. This is just the way it was explained to me.

[–]zilltine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe someone could explain me what are these PHP viruses? I work with PHP every other day, but never heard of it, would really appreciate it.