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That's interesting. Our first response is always, "you can't," and then someone's first and only post on the forum is a way to run multiple pages in one. Hackish, but interesting.

This is like.. a year old, though. How'd they run across it? Just searching for multi-threading in PHP?
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

The real WTF is that the post came three years after the last activity in that thread. Where were our mods?

(Quick note, I am the worst mod as it relates to replying to posts that come more than a year after last activity without knowing that the thread was stale for more than a year. ;) )
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Post by Benjamin »

Looks like no one noticed that.
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Everah wrote:(Quick note, I am the worst mod as it relates to replying to posts that come more than a year after last activity without knowing that the thread was stale for more than a year. ;) )
Why don't the mods make things easier on themselves, and auto-lock topics after say, 6 months or a year. Since anyone posting to them gets asked to start a new thread virtually 100% of the time, would help reduce the incident rate.

Definitely not pruning, as they usually contain valuable info, but auto-locking. I'm almost positive phpbb had a feature for that.
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Everah wrote:(Quick note, I am the worst mod as it relates to replying to posts that come more than a year after last activity without knowing that the thread was stale for more than a year. ;) )
Well, if you weren't a participant in the original thread, chances are that you won't remember it, anyway. It's easy to fail to notice the year in the post date without actually looking for it.
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superdezign wrote:
Everah wrote:(Quick note, I am the worst mod as it relates to replying to posts that come more than a year after last activity without knowing that the thread was stale for more than a year. ;) )
Well, if you weren't a participant in the original thread, chances are that you won't remember it, anyway. It's easy to fail to notice the year in the post date without actually looking for it.
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shiznatix wrote:Don't make excuses for him! He must hang for his crimes! Get him!
8O Are you mad?? That penguin's a pimp!
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Post by Jenk »

meh.. a perfect example of why I stopped reading tdwtf years ago.

Also brings to light the fact that the submittee MUST have been looking for "Multithreaded PHP" on Google to find it..
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Jenk wrote:meh.. a perfect example of why I stopped reading tdwtf years ago.

Also brings to light the fact that the submittee MUST have been looking for "Multithreaded PHP" on Google to find it..
And then ignored every single comment after that. :P
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Post by ReverendDexter »

The answer on that thread makes me think that I fail to understand multi-threading. Wouldn't that just "unroll" to a single program that calls a "send mail" function 1000 times?
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ReverendDexter wrote:The answer on that thread makes me think that I fail to understand multi-threading. Wouldn't that just "unroll" to a single program that calls a "send mail" function 1000 times?
Bingo.
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Post by onion2k »

One of the biggest problems with PHP is that it's a language that attracts inexperienced developers due to it's ease of use - you can get pretty much anything done quickly if you're willing to put up with a crazy and illogical solution. The thread mentioned is a great example - someone has worked out a way to fire a script seemingly concurrently and they've figured it's something that's worth exploring, consequently awful solutions spring up occasionally and they give PHP a bad name.

Still, so long as people learn from their (and other's) mistakes I guess there's a silver lining.
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Post by superdezign »

onion2k wrote:Still, so long as people learn from their (and other's) mistakes I guess there's a silver lining.
Sadly, sometimes they learn other people mistakes (notice I didn't say *from* other people's mistakes :P).
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