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jsampsonPC SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com

Aug 11, 2008 at 12:41 PM

"Billiant" is sarcastic - the code here is less-than-brilliant...far less than brilliant.

I wrote the following up as a joke to a friend. Curious if you .NET guys have ever written your own jokes?

The following code prints a link for each day of the current month: Day 1, Day 2, etc. The links direct you to another page that can do something with the query string...Enjoy.

(Oh, and yes, this IS a joke - so no flaming )

<?php

    getDays();

    function getDays() {
        $day = array("1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13",
                    "14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24",
                    "25","26","27","28","29","30","31");
        $trueDays = array();
        $arrayLinks = array();

        for($i = 0; $i < count($day); $i++) {
            if ($i < date("t") && $i > 0) {
                if (is_numeric($i)) {
                    $trueDays[] = ($day[$i] > 0) ? $day[$i] : 0 ;
                }
            }
        }
        if (is_array($trueDays) && 1 == 1) {
            $dayString = implode(",",$trueDays);
        }
        if (strlen($dayString) > 0) {
            foreach ($trueDays as $day) {
                $arrayLinks[] = "<a href='getDays.php?day={$day}'>Day {$day}</a>";
            }
        }

        print "<a href='getDays.php?day=1'>Day 1</a>, " . implode(", ",$arrayLinks);
    }

?>
W3bbo Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.

Aug 11, 2008 at 12:52 PM

I executed the PHP... it's just a list of days, clicking on a link doesn't actually do anything other than reload the page.

This is under PHP5 though. Does your script make use of any PHP4-specific behaviour?
jsampsonPC SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com

Aug 11, 2008 at 1:31 PM

W3bbo said:
I executed the PHP... it's just a list of days, clicking on a link doesn't actually do anything other than reload the page.

This is under PHP5 though. Does your script make use of any PHP4-specific behaviour?

It's not suppose to do anything other than list days. Something that could have been done like this:

$list = "";
for ($i = 0; $i < date('t"); $i++) {
$list .= "<a href='pointlessCode.php?day={$i}' title='Day {$i}'>Day {$i}</a>, ";
}
print $list;

As for any PHP4-Specific behaviour, not sure. I think all of the code is ambiguous. No PHP OO activity or anything. No usage of $_SESSION...I think it's all cross-compat with 4 and 5

Somebody actually wanted a solution over at DevShed. They wanted links for days 1 - n of the current month. This was a joke-solution (although a functional one) for their problem. I thought it was funny

I was mostly curious if anybody here had every done anything similar as a joke.
jsampsonPC SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com

Aug 11, 2008 at 3:19 PM

Just found this one online:

#include <stdio.h>

typedef struct {
    int ch;
    int count;
} star_t;

int main(void) {
    star_t foo[] = {
{46, 22}, {47, 1}, {194, 1}, {180, 1}, {194, 1}, {175, 1}, {47, 1}, {41, 1}, {'\n', 1},
{46, 20}, {44, 1}, {47, 1}, {194, 1}, {175, 1}, {46, 2}, {47, 1}, {'\n', 1},
{46, 19}, {47, 1}, {46, 4}, {47, 1}, {'\n', 1},
{46, 13}, {47, 1}, {194, 1}, {180, 1}, {194, 1}, {175, 1}, {47, 1}, {39, 1}, {46, 3}, {39, 1}, {47, 1}, {194, 1}, {180, 1}, {194, 1}, {175, 1}, {194, 1}, {175, 1}, {96, 1}, {194, 1}, {183, 1}, {194, 1}, {184, 1}, {'\n', 1},
{46, 10}, {47, 1}, {39, 1}, {47, 1}, {46, 3}, {47, 1}, {46, 4}, {47, 1}, {46, 7}, {47, 1}, {194, 1}, {168, 1}, {194, 1}, {175, 1}, {92, 1}, {'\n', 1},
{46, 8}, {40, 1}, {39, 1}, {40, 1}, {46, 3}, {194, 1}, {180, 1}, {46, 3}, {194, 1}, {180, 1}, {46, 4}, {32, 1}, {194, 1}, {175, 1}, {126, 1}, {47, 1}, {39, 1}, {46, 3}, {39, 1}, {41, 1}, {'\n', 1},
{46, 9}, {92, 1}, {46, 17}, {39, 1}, {46, 5}, {47, 1}, {'\n', 1},
{46, 10}, {39, 2}, {46, 3}, {92, 1}, {46, 10}, {32, 1}, {95, 1}, {46, 1}, {194, 1}, {183, 1}, {194, 1}, {180, 1}, {'\n', 1},
{46, 12}, {92, 1}, {46, 14}, {40, 1}, {'\n', 1},
{46, 14}, {92, 1}, {46, 13}, {92, 1}, {46, 1}, {32, 1}, {'\n', 1}
    };
    int i, j;
    for (i = 0; i < sizeof(foo) / sizeof(foo[0]); i++) {
        star_t bar = foo[i];
        for (j = 0; j < bar.count; j++) {
            printf("%c", (char )bar.ch);
        }
    }
    return 0;
}
figuerres ???

Aug 11, 2008 at 3:19 PM

Well there are some odd SQL tricks I have used one or two times, you can run a single SQL select with a dynamic text/string and a TSQL function.... if you for example have a table of ID,Name to put into a dropdown you can make SQL build the complete HTML for the dropdown.... I'd have to dig out the code.... but it's kinda sweet how it works.
cheong Recent Cheevo unlocked: You got cookied!

Aug 12, 2008 at 3:26 AM

I've seen someone asking others to post code for some "hello world" level assignment on a C++ community in C, so someone took time to write a main.c that consist of all kinds of "ooOOo", "oOoo" and "#define" directive that replacing them with meaningful keywords like "void", "main"...

That's what we called remarkable "OO programming in C"...

Bass I need better writers.

Aug 12, 2008 at 5:40 AM

cheong said:
I've seen someone asking others to post code for some "hello world" level assignment on a C++ community in C, so someone took time to write a main.c that consist of all kinds of "ooOOo", "oOoo" and "#define" directive that replacing them with meaningful keywords like "void", "main"...

That's what we called remarkable "OO programming in C"...


/*     efdtt.c     Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>             */
/*                                                                         */
/*     Thanks to Phil Carmody <fatphil@asdf.org> for additional tweaks.    */
/*                                                                         */
/*     DVD-logo shaped version by Alex Bowley <alex@hyperspeed.org>        */
/*                                                                         */
/*     Usage is:  cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob           */


#define m(i)(x[i]^s[i+84])<<

                   unsigned char x[5]      ,y,s[2048];main(  
                   n){for( read(0,x,5     );read(0,s ,n=2048  
                            ); write(1   ,s,n)         )if(s 
                  [y=s      [13]%8+20]  /16%4  ==1      ){int 
                  i=m(      1)17  ^256 +m(0)   8,k      =m(2) 
                  0,j=      m(4)   17^ m(3)   9^k*     2-k%8 
                  ^8,a     =0,c    =26;for   (s[y]    -=16;  
                 --c;j  *=2)a=     a*2^i&    1,i=i /2^j&1   
                 <<24;for(j=        127;     ++j<n;c=c>     
                                    y)                      
                                    c                       
                                             
                           +=y=i^i/8^i>>4^i>>12,              
                  i=i>>8^y<<17,a^=a>>14,y=a^a*8^a<<6,a=a     
                >>8^y<<9,k=s[j],k         ="7Wo~'G_\216"[k   
                 &7]+2^"cr3sfw6v;*k+>/n."[k>>4]*2^k*257/
                       8,s[j]=k^(k&k*2&34)*6^c+~y       
                                  ;}}

Ion Todirel buuu

Aug 12, 2008 at 1:13 PM

Bass said:

cheong said:

*snip*


/*     efdtt.c     Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>             */
/*                                                                         */
/*     Thanks to Phil Carmody <fatphil@asdf.org> for additional tweaks.    */
/*                                                                         */
/*     DVD-logo shaped version by Alex Bowley <alex@hyperspeed.org>        */
/*                                                                         */
/*     Usage is:  cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob           */


#define m(i)(x[i]^s[i+84])<<

                   unsigned char x[5]      ,y,s[2048];main(  
                   n){for( read(0,x,5     );read(0,s ,n=2048  
                            ); write(1   ,s,n)         )if(s 
                  [y=s      [13]%8+20]  /16%4  ==1      ){int 
                  i=m(      1)17  ^256 +m(0)   8,k      =m(2) 
                  0,j=      m(4)   17^ m(3)   9^k*     2-k%8 
                  ^8,a     =0,c    =26;for   (s[y]    -=16;  
                 --c;j  *=2)a=     a*2^i&    1,i=i /2^j&1   
                 <<24;for(j=        127;     ++j<n;c=c>     
                                    y)                      
                                    c                       
                                             
                           +=y=i^i/8^i>>4^i>>12,              
                  i=i>>8^y<<17,a^=a>>14,y=a^a*8^a<<6,a=a     
                >>8^y<<9,k=s[j],k         ="7Wo~'G_\216"[k   
                 &7]+2^"cr3sfw6v;*k+>/n."[k>>4]*2^k*257/
                       8,s[j]=k^(k&k*2&34)*6^c+~y       
                                  ;}}

wow lol that's crazy Smiley

lol again

Bas It finds lightbulbs.

Aug 12, 2008 at 1:22 PM

Bass said:

cheong said:

*snip*


/*     efdtt.c     Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>             */
/*                                                                         */
/*     Thanks to Phil Carmody <fatphil@asdf.org> for additional tweaks.    */
/*                                                                         */
/*     DVD-logo shaped version by Alex Bowley <alex@hyperspeed.org>        */
/*                                                                         */
/*     Usage is:  cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob           */


#define m(i)(x[i]^s[i+84])<<

                   unsigned char x[5]      ,y,s[2048];main(  
                   n){for( read(0,x,5     );read(0,s ,n=2048  
                            ); write(1   ,s,n)         )if(s 
                  [y=s      [13]%8+20]  /16%4  ==1      ){int 
                  i=m(      1)17  ^256 +m(0)   8,k      =m(2) 
                  0,j=      m(4)   17^ m(3)   9^k*     2-k%8 
                  ^8,a     =0,c    =26;for   (s[y]    -=16;  
                 --c;j  *=2)a=     a*2^i&    1,i=i /2^j&1   
                 <<24;for(j=        127;     ++j<n;c=c>     
                                    y)                      
                                    c                       
                                             
                           +=y=i^i/8^i>>4^i>>12,              
                  i=i>>8^y<<17,a^=a>>14,y=a^a*8^a<<6,a=a     
                >>8^y<<9,k=s[j],k         ="7Wo~'G_\216"[k   
                 &7]+2^"cr3sfw6v;*k+>/n."[k>>4]*2^k*257/
                       8,s[j]=k^(k&k*2&34)*6^c+~y       
                                  ;}}

That's awesome. Big Smile

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