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elephantInTheRoom
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Wordpress is not representative of PHP as a language.
- PHP 8.3 was released on 23 November 2023. The current version of PHP is PHP 8.4 and was released on 21 November 2024. Wordpress formally started to support PHP 8.3 this month, and PHP 8.4 isn't formally supported yet.
- Wordpress can't use any PHP features from PHP 7.3 or higher, because they still want to be compatible with PHP 7.2, which was released on 30 November 2017 and went End of life on 30 November 2020
- Wordpress 6.5 was still compatible with PHP 7.0
- Wordpress 6.3 was still compatible with PHP 5.6
WTF is wrong with wordpress people?
a lot.
Matt Mullenweg, for starters.
It's has its origins in very old PHP versions, with associated bad programming practices, and has been upgraded over the years, while attempting to be compatible with many PHP versions, meaning big wins due to newer PHP features are not possible.
WordPress 6.7 requires PHP7.2 or later, else it throws a composer error. WP Core is up to version 6.8.2, which can and will run on PHP 8.4
If this is a new format of that old similar photo, then I'd say it's the opposite.
WordPress, owning a huge chunk of the internet, has long been "terrorizing" PHP's reputation, despite the PHP having gone a long way from the legacy clusterfuck that it once was.
Care to explain?
Ugh. My daughter works for a company who does custom web apps for clients, and one of the clients insists on having WP as their front end so she has to dig through all this obfuscated php to make it work with her databases.
what the hell does this even mean lol
PHP and WordPress are fucking
Who, me?
for file in $(wp core verify-checksums 2>&1 | grep 'File should not exist:' | grep -v error_log | awk '{print $6}'); do yes | rm -f ./$file; done && wp core download --force --version=$(wp core version)Wordpress is a brat and it takes a certain brazen toppy energy to dominate it
I think the joke is php is getting a handful of boob or something?