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PHP explained badly
I tried to explain the PHP mess with a cup of tea, a chair and a burger. I fell over for the chair one.
▶Play the video: PHP explained badlyI tried to explain the PHP mess using three metaphors. A cup of tea. A chair. A burger.
The tea is the website. You drink the tea, the tea kills you. Then the chair. The chair is a PHP vulnerability, two of them, and when you go to sit down somebody has moved it and you fall over. I did actually fall over for that one. Commitment to the craft.
The burger is the one the BBC used. A chef makes you a burger, the burger goes to the waiter, you eat the burger, and the burger is the website. I didn’t understand theirs either.
That’s the joke. Website security gets explained like this all the time. Metaphor on top of metaphor, until you come away knowing less than when you started.
If you’re more confused by the end, that’s probably fair.
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History Palmer F about the PHP closer two types of sourness. You drink the tea, the tea kills you. The tea is the website. So you're sitting down on a chair and the chair is a PHP vulnerability, two of them. And when you go to sit down, the chair has been moved away from you and you fall over and die.
The chair is the website. A PHP is like a burger and you're eating a burger at a restaurant and the chef is making you a burger and the burger goes to the waiter. I I don't know, this was the BBC one. I didn't understand it either. You eat the burger, the burger is the website.