NikiC

Berlin, Germany

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Age: 18

PHP sucks. Long live PHP!

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Input placeholders for Internet Explorer

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Find first character that is different between two strings

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Any decent PHP parser written in PHP?

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Match a^n b^n c^n (e.g. “aaabbbccc”) using regular expressions (PCRE)

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29 votes

Many hash iterations: append salt every time?

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What is generator.throw() good for?

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OutOfRangeException vs. OutOfBoundsException

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Why are PHP function calls so expensive?

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12 votes

How to send a status code in PHP, without maintaining an array of status names?

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Compiling an AST back to source code

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Parentheses altering semantics of function call result

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is_null($x) vs $x === null in PHP

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Import file size limit in PHPMyAdmin

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Exploitable PHP functions

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PHP namespace removal / mapping and rewriting identifiers

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