My Daily WTF moment
I read The Daily WTF from time to time in amazement. I've never had a WTF moment even relatively worthy of their site, until today...
<?php if (isset($secondary_links)) : ?>
<?php print theme('links', $secondary_links, array('class' => 'links secondary-links')) ?>
<?php
endif;
?>
This is exactly how the code appears, spacing included. Fixing up the spacing only makes you wonder why-tf anyone would write PHP in this style.
<?php if (isset($secondary_links)): ?>
<?php print theme('links', $secondary_links, array('class' => 'links secondary-links')) ?>
<?php endif; ?>
So what's wrong with this code?
- Spacing–the author had to try to make it this atrocious
- Opening and closing <?php for consecutive lines–what gives, really?
- Wonky if(): endif; syntax–are we in 1998 again
By the way, writing unreadable code does not help your job security if you have to ship it to customers.