r/technology • u/Radio_TVGuy • 13h ago

Security New PHP vulnerability means the Internet will have a very rough couple of days

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/10/21/new-php-vulnerability-means-the-internet-will-have-a-very-rough-couple-of-days
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u/azsqueeze 11h ago

Wait next cloud runs on php? That seems like not a great choice of language for that kind of service

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u/Accurate-Visual9793 8h ago

There has been a lot of effort put into making modern PHP not completely terrible. I still wouldn't choose it for a project, but it's not a complete liability anymore (other than well, these vulnerabilities)

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u/AlleKeskitason 7h ago

I don't know much about what's baked into various programming languages, but wasn't php at least in the past considered a goddamn awful language by many? I just have this really vague memory of reading something about how the syntax or built-in functions were very extremely hacky or primitive or something, like they were designed by people who barely knew how to code.

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u/itzjackybro 7h ago

PHP has syntax sugar that is specifically tailored towards web dev (like being able to embed directly into HTML, and something something builtin MySQL support?).

From what I remember, the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack was also huge back in the in the 2000's and early 2010's, and was like the recommended way to do simple websites at the time.

But I do agree, its syntax is about as horrid as it gets.

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u/RellenD 6h ago

I thought lamp used Mongo

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u/TaiGlobal 6h ago

Thats Mean/mean that uses mongo

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u/RellenD 6h ago

Oh, mongo, Express, Angular, Node. You're right.

My brain failed at what feels like ancient history now