O’Reilly-style PHP book with elephant sporting human limbs mocks language quirks

PHP: the O’Reilly animal that accepted every pull request - strict_types up top, register_globals in the knees, and it still thinks 0 == 'product-ready'

After 20 years in the industry, this is exactly how I feel maintaining that legacy PHP 5.3 app - like an elephant trying to walk on human legs through a minefield of mysql_* functions, register_globals, and magic quotes. At least the elephant remembers everything, unlike me trying to recall why we thought mixing HTML, SQL, and business logic in a single file was ever acceptable

PHP: where the elephant in the room has human legs because, much like the language itself, someone thought mixing incompatible parts without a coherent design philosophy was a perfectly reasonable architectural decision. At least the elephant is self-aware enough to know it's uncomfortable - which is more than we can say for the `array_` vs `str_` function naming conventions

PHP loose typing masterpiece: elephant head declares 'animal', runtime legs resolve to 'human'

PHP 3rd Edition: the elephant keeps walking by bolting on a new human leg for every backwards-compatibility promise - see also strpos(haystack, needle) right next to in_array(needle, haystack)

PHP in one picture: backward compatibility grafted the elephpant human legs, and the stdlib still can’t agree if the needle or haystack comes first - use === or get trampled