php WTF

Posted on February 28, 2013 by markfiend

The following code works:

<?php
class TestClass {
    static function test_method($foo) {
        global $x;
        return str_replace('twitter', $x, $foo);
    }
}

$x = 'wibble';

ob_start(
    function ($html) {
        $pattern = '~(<a .*?href=["\'])([^"\']+)(["\'].*?>.*?</a>)~';
        return preg_replace_callback(
            $pattern,
            function ($matches) {
                $y = TestClass::test_method($matches[2]);
                return $matches[1] . $y . $matches[3];
            },
            $html
        );
    }
);
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Test for whether global variables work</title>
</head>
<body>
<article id="twitter">
<h1>Latest update from <a href="http://twitter.com/markfiend">my Twitter feed</a>:</h1>
<h2><a href="http://twitter.com/markfiend/statuses/304159221711241216">Wed 20 Feb 2013 09:23:04</a>:</h2>
<p>Case sensitivity is IMPORTANT: Consider: "I'm going to help Uncle Jack off a horse" and "i'm going to help uncle jack off a horse"</p>
</article>
</body>
</html>

However this does not:

<?php
class TestClass {
    static function test_method($foo) {
        global $x;
        return str_replace('twitter', $x->scalar, $foo);
    }
}

$x = (object) 'wibble';

ob_start(
    function ($html) {
        $pattern = '~(<a .*?href=["\'])([^"\']+)(["\'].*?>.*?</a>)~';
        return preg_replace_callback(
            $pattern,
            function ($matches) {
                $y = TestClass::test_method($matches[2]);
                return $matches[1] . $y . $matches[3];
            },
            $html
        );
    }
);
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Test for whether global variables work</title>
</head>
<body>
<article id="twitter">
<h1>Latest update from <a href="http://twitter.com/markfiend">my Twitter feed</a>:</h1>
<h2><a href="http://twitter.com/markfiend/statuses/304159221711241216">Wed 20 Feb 2013 09:23:04</a>:</h2>
<p>Case sensitivity is IMPORTANT: Consider: "I'm going to help Uncle Jack off a horse" and "i'm going to help uncle jack off a horse"</p>
</article>
</body>
</html>
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1 Response to php WTF

  1. mantenimiento y venta de extintores mexico says:
    October 28, 2019 at 10:01 pm

    Los fuegos se dividen enn las clases A, B, C y D.

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