No, I’m not mimicing what the heavy says in Team Fortress 2 when a Pyro has freshly set him alight, I’m doing something that’s not TF2! Coding PHP!
After living in a fantasy world of Ruby on Rails for around 8 months, and then jumping straight back into PHP at the niggling, horribly maintained Whatpulse Signature Images site and it was like jumping into a vat of Sulphuric Acid, not that I know what that’s like.
Lets lead off with a few bad things:
1. Mother-fucking semi-colons
What. The. Fuck. Why do I have to end my lines with semi-colons? There’s been about a hundred times (it feels it) TODAY that I’ve been caught out because I’ve missed a semi-colon somewhere.
2. Brackets
Why does my if statement need to have ( and ) around the argument? Isn’t the text after the if ALWAYS the argument? Why the hell does it need curly brackets too?
3. Coding in Notepad++
Yay for no syntax highlighting and only bolding the ending bracket or parenthesis. It’s REALLY hard to tell the difference between } and } in Monaco. Same with Courier New.
Yay for also 8-months-ago Ryan not knowing how truly bloody awesome line indentation is and how much it makes code easier to read. Thanks for Adam for making his code more readable than mine. The guy’s a PHP God. He probably solves advanced calculus equations simultaneously, for fun.
Enough ranting. Got to go try out this crap known as “Eclipse PDT” to see if it’s better than Notepad++.