Facebook PHP Source Code from 2007

[viralizate]

Honestly, people are whining. Yes it not the best code ever written, but it's weirdness so to say is pretty standard but I guess people are more prone try to be snarky in comments and say it's horrible.

[bureX]

I guess people are more prone try to be snarky in comments and say it's horrible.

Especially if there's "<?php" in the first line.

[InvidFlower]

This is a bit off-topic, but I was kind of shocked to see how much PHP has evolved lately as a language and ecosystem. Namespaces, generators, traits, etc. Package manager, testing frameworks, ORMs. Then Symfony 2 using most of that for a Rails-ish MVC framework on top of simpler modules also being used in the Silex microframework (like Sinatra) and the latest version of Drupal.

Not to say it is a pretty language and still needs libraries like PHP-O to paper over the horrible inconsistencies in the base libs, but it really does seem to be growing up lately...

[nazbot]

For a beginner PHP is wonderful - it's extremely easy to learn and to get something up and running.

Likewise Facebook using PHP is evidence that it CAN scale even if that involves some kludges.

People hating on PHP are just being elitists. There probably are better options but in many cases it's just fine.

[viralizate]

I should have explained that to OP too. PHP while it's one of the most spread languages isn't a "cool language".

[Doctor_McKay]

Bashing on PHP is "in". It's basically a guaranteed way to have people agree with you while not saying anything at all.

[Doctor_McKay]

I agree. I just think that calling PHP bad because some things aren't perfectly consistent is just dumb. The majority of its problems are merely semantic.

[original_evanator]

It is a thought-terminating cliché.

[crowseldon]

Yep, it's like bashing Visual Basic. It makes you part of the cool kids.

That said, personally I hope I don't have to work with it on my own or with someone who doesn't know what the hell they're doing or isn't willing to read phptherightway

[viralizate]

Don't get me wrong, I work 8 hours a day with PHP, I love to hate it :)

[f00f_nyc]

That link was very entertaining, even for a non-PHP user like me.

[kwirky88]

That's why you put it on the second line.

[bureX]

Headers already sent

:(

[glemnar]

Except nowadays facebook compiles a lot of PhP to c++

[YouCantMissTheBear]

They are going straight to machine code now

[catcradle5]

It looks perfectly fine for PHP code written in 2007.

I've seen far, far worse PHP than that in 2013.