and people ask why we say PHP is a meme

https://lemmy.world/post/1455091

and people ask why we say PHP is a meme - Lemmy.world

The fault is the programmer for not using a switch statement.
“php doesn’t stop me from coding like a moron, therefore php sucks”

I say that php breaks math entirely, and is therefore bad. “” == null returns true null == [] returns true “” == [] returns false.

In more recent versions it gets worse, because it has 0 == “any text” return true, “any text” == true return true, and 1 == true return true So indirectly 1 = 0, and now math is more directly broken.

I just tested these out out of curiosity.
0==“text” returns false in PHP 8.2 as I’d expect.

The others make sense in the way that php juggles between types. An empty variable can type-juggle to null, but an array can’t be directly compared with a string.

(Although you wouldn’t really want to compare an array with a string, PHP just treats an array as greater than other variables. So weirdly, ([] > “”) == true.)