Web & PHP Conference 2013 TALK – Resources

The following links pertain to the talk “PHP: Quirks, Gotchas & Wizardry” which I gave at the Web & PHP Conference in San Jose, CA, Sept. 2013.  

Intro

Geek Clock by by juliocarvajal (Flickr)

• http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Hot-skills-PHP-joins-the-mainstream
• http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/open-source-php-usage-tops-244-million-sites.html
• http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?305966-Has-the-Fun-Gone-Out-of-PHP&s=6a2079492ebff5625ed742a343729090
• http://shiflett.org/blog/2006/aug/six-reasons-php-sucks
• http://webonastick.com/php.html
• https://maurus.net/resources/programming-languages/php/
• http://terrychay.com/article/php-sucks.shtml
• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/php-sucks-but-it-doesnt-matter.html
• http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/04/php-sucks-but-i-like-it.html
• http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Hexadecimal

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
• http://pastebin.com/vQ67wQ52
• http://3v4l.org/4qiCp
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13756
• http://us2.php.net/pow
• http://3v4l.org/D2QJN
• http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.base-convert.php
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65212
• http://codepad.org/ZlVskhoY
• http://codepad.org/UnYdn44H

Hex and Sign

• http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php
• http://markmail.org/message/xf3734kiar4mi63m
• http://php.net/manual/en/function.dechex.php
• http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_5/ext/standard/math.c#1049
• http://devzone.zend.com/3443/phps-remarkable-hexadecimals/
• http://codepad.org/rTLYLwES
• http://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/post/33051383652/twos-complewhat
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1831753/c-unsigned-int-providing-a-negative-value
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15288032/trying-to-reproduce-a-dechex-function-behaviour-on-x64-architecture/
• http://grokbase.com/t/php/php-internals/135z59f0kz/5-next-integer-and-string-type-modifications
• http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#add-a-64bit-integer
• http://www.scs.stanford.edu/histar/src/pkg/uclibc/include/limits.h
• http://floating-point-gui.de/
• https://slevy1.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/integers-and-relativity-in-php
• http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/01/10/php-vs-bigint-vs-float-conversion-caveat/
• http://codepad.org/ihCztf1m
• http://pastebin.com/MY7d6usn
• http://codepad.org/3u4zYyFT
• http://3v4l.org/bGADF
• http://codepad.org/IRUOB71p
• http://codepad.org/yQ8mllFl
• http://codepad.org/Q2yR12Sj
• http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
• http://codepad.org/NBnFZ1x0

Hex and Context

• http://3v4l.org/kKhIr
• http://markmail.org/message/ax2drcb6dolr5agl
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/hexadecimal-literals.html
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41409
• http://3v4l.org/DgO85
• http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Parsing-of-Integers.html
• http://us1.php.net/intval
• http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_5/ext/standard/type.c#132
• http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_5/Zend/zend_operators.c#369
• http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.hexdec.php

Hex Zero: +/- Bug

• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61095
• http://3v4l.org/LuBrH
• http://3v4l.org/M4FUX
• http://us2.php.net/Tokenizer
• http://php.net/manual/en/tokens.php
• http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_4/Zend/zend_language_scanner.l#1531
• http://3v4l.org/8poW5
• http://pastebin.com/GSr545Ze
• http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/q2txk/php_adds_hexadecimal_numbers_incorrectly/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_overflow
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2913618/how-is-integer-overflow-exploitable
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61225

Large File Support

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_File_Support
• http://users.suse.com/~aj/linux_lfs.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17549007/2gb-file-upload-filesfilesize-negative-number
• http://news.php.net/php.internals/32767
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34750
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45040
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48886
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27792
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63618
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5501451/php-x86-how-to-get-filesize-of-2gb-file-without-external-program
• http://markmail.org/message/5bigqk43xewr2wme
• http://markmail.org/message/rhqy2wu5eu5253fm

Octals

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal
• http://3v4l.org/nYaeQ#tabs
• http://3v4l.org/nYaeQ/vld#tabs
• http://3v4l.org/T9pvk
• http://3v4l.org/kkf4s/vld#tabs
• https://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks#PHP_sucks_because%3A
• http://www.mail-archive.com/clojure@googlegroups.com/msg10651.html
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29676
• http://www.steike.com/code/php-must-die/
• http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_4/Zend/zend_language_scanner.l#1510
• http://codepad.org/yJxmhYFa
• http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_4/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h
• http://codepad.org/ML6wkhtQ
• http://markmail.org/message/b77km3eyjlcsnr4o
• http://us3.php.net/octdec
• http://us.php.net/manual/phpfi2.php

Really Big Numbers

• http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.constants.php
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52355
• http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_TRUNK/Zend/zend_language_parser.y#776
• http://pastebin.com/fSM6x0VV
• http://3v4l.org/RaMu3
• http://codepad.org/JiXP7bzc
• http://3v4l.org/8JNg9
• http://codepad.org/MPe7D4fi
• http://codepad.org/KMbkQHHd
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53934
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=24381
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=14134
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47745
• http://codepad.org/v6Riokij
• http://3v4l.org/NesHc
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54547
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62097
• http://codepad.org/RXqETo7A
• http://3v4l.org/EYSAQ
• http://3v4l.org/SH0v2
• http://www.phpsadness.com/sad/47
• http://us3.php.net/manual/en/types.comparisons.php
• http://us3.php.net/operators.comparison
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/589549/php-vs-operator
• http://3v4l.org/sib2l
• http://3v4l.org/cL5il
• http://3v4l.org/I7csH
• http://pastebin.com/6htdcQ04
• http://php.net/manual/en/intro.bc.php
• http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.gmp.php
• https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_overloading_gmp

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