Link to the article please and thank you?
In conclusion: PHP is a terrible language and promotes terrible coding standards and if you use it you deserve all the pwnage you'll get.pic.twitter.com/ooYaqKG7aB
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...or use is_numeric()
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Any language worth writing code in doesn't happily convert malformed strings into best guess integers without raising an error.
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as much as I love to hate PHP. It's getting better. 7 has strict typing for scalars. And WP is one of the worst legacy codebases.
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same here. Since then, there are better tools and functions tahn before.
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good lord why
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What are the other options commonly installed on hosting? Perl, Python, and RoR? They aren't lazy-dev proof either
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No language is lazy-dev proof, but PHP tries as hard as it can to get you to shoot yourself in the foot.
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Isn't that more of a WP issue though? 1/2
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I mean I get that PHP has the malformed string conversion problem, but a request's input should never be trusted like that
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