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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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BobJanova23-Jul-12 4:02
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This is caused by a piece of PHP weirdness combined with a browser getting confused about mismatched tags.

The PHP weirdness is that the ternary is a weak binding. So
$var = $bool ? 1 : 0 . ' bowls of petunias';

... will set $var to either (numeric) 1 or (string) "0 bowls of petunias". This isn't wrong, per se, but it is surprising if you come from a language where the ternary is a strong binding. In PHP you must do
$var = ($bool ? 1 : 0) . ' bowls of petunias';


As a result of that, you're outputting markup with mismatched <td>/</td> tags, if the ternaries pick the first option. If that inside a nested table, most browsers will just give up on trying to work out what's going on and draw the contents of the mismatched cells before the inner table.
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