[h2ooooooo]

..usually I'm on PHP's side, but what the serious fuck?

http://codepad.org/XU7a1feG

<?php
	var_dump(0 == false);
	var_dump(false == "what");
	var_dump(0 == "what");
?>

Output:

bool(true)
bool(false)
bool(true)

And no, this isn't about the === operator, it's about why 0 is false, and 0 is "what" but false is not what, even though false is 0 and 0 is false.

[commander204]

"what" when changed to a number is 0 so 0 == 0

[h2ooooooo]

commander204 posted:

"what" when changed to a number is 0 so 0 == 0

Correct.

http://codepad.org/vNti1C5m

<?php
	var_dump((string)false);
	var_dump((string)0);
	var_dump((string)"what");
	
	var_dump((int)false);
	var_dump((int)0);
	var_dump((int)"what");
	
	var_dump((bool)false);
	var_dump((bool)0);
	var_dump((bool)"what");
?>

string(0) ""
string(1) "0"
string(4) "what"
int(0)
int(0)
int(0)
bool(false)
bool(false)
bool(true)

[acpm]

TerabyteS_ posted:

Today I'm shutting down qfi.im

Over the years, collectively, there have been a handful of successful projects that have come out of Facepunch's community. I can't think of a single one that wasn't made by a pretty amazing person in any regard. This is one of those projects in my opinion.

It had a good run, and I think you did an excellent job.

[adamjon858]

:(

You forgot one business model.....freemium.

1 free premium link per day. You can pay for unlimited for $5/month or something.

[TerabyteS_]

amcfaggot posted:

Over the years, collectively, there have been a handful of successful projects that have come out of Facepunch's community. I can't think of a single one that wasn't made by a pretty amazing person in any regard. This is one of those projects in my opinion.

It had a good run, and I think you did an excellent job.

Woah, those are some very nice words. Thank you!

[StinkyJoe]

TerabyteS_ posted:

Woah, those are some very nice words. Thank you!

Just kidding.

[TerabyteS_]

adamjon858 posted:

:(

You forgot one business model.....freemium.

1 free premium link per day. You can pay for unlimited for $5/month or something.

That would have been against the original plan I had in mind for it which was to avoid impeding access to the user for any reason and keeping the service 100% free, making money only in ways that would not change how the service itself behaved. In the long run it proved to be a model that does not work (with the kind of audience the site was targeted towards, at least), but it has served me a great lesson about running and managing a small-scale size with a few users. Now that this one is out of the way, I could try taking the next step and trying to build something even bigger and better.

[BBgamer720]

TerabyteS_ posted:

Today I'm shutting down qfi.im



qfi.im post-mortem

Monthly stats


Lesson learned
Being the good guy is not a good business model. People will not give you money unless you force them to, if you ask them to donate they'll repeatedly click the ads instead and get you banned from AdSense (that really happened), and they'll complain about the service not working for lack of funds and refuse to donate even if asked nicely.

I've also learned that people can't read because I've repeatedly stated that qfi.im works with only with a few certain services, in which mediafire not included (it also has no wait times either so there'd be no point in including it), yet people will skip that entirely and complain.

Brief history of qfi.im
qfi.im wasn't originally my idea. A Facepunch user going by the name of Mutank (or something similar) made a small site called SparkGen and I offered myself to make a better-looking interface for it. I started work on what was then called SparkGen, designed and made it functional all on my own, and then, after not hearing from the other guy for a week I decided to take it on on my own, and changed its name to QuickFire (you can probably see where it's going now). That was sometime during April 2011. I added ads to the site and launched it as a 100% free, donation (and ads) funded site. After a while I got banned out of AdSense because of people repeatedly clicking my ads instead of donating.
For a little longer than a year, qfi.im continued to live off of sparse donations and low cost hosting. Today marks the day when that model has finally collapsed. qfi.im was my personal experiment to see how long such a thing would last and to see if I would be able to build a service able to aliment itself for a long period of time. I think I can say it was a little success.

Well, it was a nice website. I never really got to use it as it never worked for me - the accounts always ran out by the time I got to use them and other sites just didn't work at all. It was sexy though.

[asantos3]

I'm working on some icons for a blog.

What do you think?

[swift and shift]

h2ooooooo posted:

..usually I'm on PHP's side, but what the serious fuck?

http://codepad.org/XU7a1feG

<?php
	var_dump(0 == false);
	var_dump(false == "what");
	var_dump(0 == "what");
?>

Output:

bool(true)
bool(false)
bool(true)

And no, this isn't about the === operator, it's about why 0 is false, and 0 is "what" but false is not what, even though false is 0 and 0 is false.

http://codepad.org/omQc3UQn

[jaybuz]

asantos3 posted:

I'm working on some icons for a blog.

What do you think?

Very clean and clear but is it suppose to be a printer?

[acpm]

swift and shift posted:

http://codepad.org/omQc3UQn

what

[jung3o]

swift and shift posted:

http://codepad.org/omQc3UQn

is it running top to bottom instead of actually looking at the if statement?

http://codepad.org/gB5TeeaF
haha PHP is weird

[Ac!dL3ak]

jung3o posted:

is it running top to bottom instead of actually looking at the if statement?

http://codepad.org/gB5TeeaF
haha PHP is weird

http://codepad.org/CAyDBSQ1

uh

[reeferdk]

swift and shift posted:

http://codepad.org/omQc3UQn

Just ran that code, and it ran as expected (echo'ing "hello").. Care to elaborate where the WTF is here?

Edit: Yeah okay so apparently a 6 year old version of PHP acts like this...

[Adzter]

Not what I'm working on, but this thread is pretty much general discussion too so I thought you guys might find this hilarious

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-...ng-System.aspx

[swift and shift]

reeferdk posted:

Just ran that code, and it ran as expected (echo'ing "hello").. Care to elaborate where the WTF is here?

Edit: Yeah okay so apparently a 6 year old version of PHP acts like this...

my local 5.3.10 behaves the same way codepad does

Edited:

apparently it's down to some zend extension, but that's still a serious wtf

[Crhem van der B]

Echoes "hello" on my setup too, I'm running php 5.3.5.

[Catdaemon]

swift and shift posted:

my local 5.3.10 behaves the same way codepad does

Edited:

apparently it's down to some zend extension, but that's still a serious wtf

lol zend

[commander204]

swift and shift posted:

my local 5.3.10 behaves the same way codepad does

Edited:

apparently it's down to some zend extension, but that's still a serious wtf

What is the explanation? I mean why would you want to define functions in an if statement? Perhaps it was just overseen or something. ( In the end I have no Idea how the language is parsed. )

[KmartSqrl]

It's not that it's necessarily a common use case, but it's a good indication that the internals are goofy. The fact that a language doesn't behave as you would expect it to is never a good thing.

[StinkyJoe]

KmartSqrl posted:

It's not that it's necessarily a common use case, but it's a good indication that the internals are goofy. The fact that a language doesn't behave as you would expect it to is never a good thing.

Might be a good time to rethink my plan to sell avionics software written in PHP...

[camacazie638]

Hey Web Devs,
When it comes to website development this would have to be my first real attempt. With a few months of work along with many revisions, I have arrived to this current milestone with all the knowledge I have gained from there to here. Stating ahead, this is not a completed project; I have many executions that have yet to be written, with a style that is no candy to the eye, and a pipeline I feel could be simplified.

Server-side I am not using PHP or MySQL, due to my limited internet access I have been using .ASP with some client-side AJAX.
Within my current project is a system folder ('sys') that includes the directory of users ('dir') and their attributes along with seperate folders ('director')('exe') with scripts to be executed.
I have absolutely no idea of the standard a database should carry, so I am assuming my attempt will look and seem very uncoventional.
The plan is to host services throughout domains registered by users, with much of the functionality still in progess, I hope to leave this system as open-ended as possible.

Here I zipped away the wwwroot folder of my current build including all the files and folders that I am currently working with.
intepub/wwwroot zip

I do hope that I can receive some feedback of my approach, along with any ideas of where I might be heading or the direction I am facing.

[KmartSqrl]

Quit one of my two jobs today because the CEO is a nut. Came on full time at my other job with a higher salary, good stock options, and better benefits. Win.

[darksoul69]

[acpm]

[quincy18]

So I am working doing my first website design for a customer since the designer that I used to work with moved and stopped doing web design. I have never done any webdesign before so I thought I'd post it here before giving this mockup(its not done) to the customer for review.



Any CC is welcome.

[darksoul69]

I can't load the image.

[quincy18]

Updated, forgot that I had to copy the public link.

[swift and shift]

darksoul69 posted:

I can't load the image.

are you rolling your own support system or going with whcms or some shit

[Adzter]

swift and shift posted:

are you rolling your own support system or going with whcms or some shit

It's HostBill he's using, and it looks like it has a few advantages over WHMCS from what I've seen on their site

[Spero78]

swift and shift posted:

are you rolling your own support system or going with whcms or some shit

Looks like WHMCS

[crimsongreen]

It's not whmcs. It's http://hostbillapp.com/

[mobrockers2]

quincy18 posted:

So I am working doing my first website design for a customer since the designer that I used to work with moved and stopped doing web design. I have never done any webdesign before so I thought I'd post it here before giving this mockup(its not done) to the customer for review.



Any CC is welcome.

Please improve on your Dutch, that's some cringe-worthy grammar and spelling.

[quincy18]

mobrockers2 posted:

Please improve on your Dutch, that's some cringe-worthy grammar and spelling.

Yeah I already noticed that, this is just a quick in between screen I posted, also changed the font on the top helper lines since those were different from the bottom one.

[darksoul69]

Spero78 posted:

Looks like WHMCS

It's HostBill. It looks nothing like WHMCS.

[acpm]

amcfaggot posted:

Here's a living mockup of this: http://www.andrewmcwatters.com/proje...ixfaction.com/

[KmartSqrl]

It'd be kind of cool if the background was a 360 panorama that slowly scrolled by.

[acpm]

KmartSqrl posted:

It'd be kind of cool if the background was a 360 panorama that slowly scrolled by.

I'll talk to my client about it