
“Uh Oh!” as my daughter would say. I was tagged to write a poem, yes thats right, me. Kelly Cho tagged me in her poetry post that was originally started by Stretsh’s meme to see how poetic bloggers are. Lets see, its been somewhere around 10+ years since I had to write a poem, so lets see if I can put something together here. This will be an original piece, and I do mean piece, by RJ “Bobs” Matthis. I definitely know I am not a poet, but lets see if I can have fun with this anyway
The PHP Tree…
From your roots that were planted by Rasmus Lerdorf
To your expanding branches fed by Coder’s hard work
Oh why do people refuse to use strtotime()?
The correct function for the job makes your app sublimeUsing substr() I can return chosen partial strings
Or I will start a while() loop that returns many things
Always use a switch() statement if options are many
Too many elseif() statements will drag you down plentyFilter the input and always escape output if User Entry
Security is most important, not just complementary
Preventing MySQL injections is a very important thing!
So always be sure to use mysql_real_escape_string()My PHP Tree, how beautiful are your functions
Since finding you I have never felt any compunction
Using your objects & functions makes me a happy fellow
Oh PHP, you have had me ever since typing echo()
by RJ “Bobs” Matthis
So thats it, that is my poem. Basically the logicalness you would expect from a programmer, you’re just lucky I didn’t throw in some binary chains (010101010101) in there somehow. So if you are interested in sharing your poetic spirit, I would like to tag the following 3 people: Saman, 2Perfect, & Melanie
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Oh man… the last time I had to write a poem was a few months ago… and if I remember correctly I did bad
but hey, lets giv’er a shot… I love how you used PHP as the topic for your poem
And they call me a geek
Great poem man. You are added. Thanks for the participation.
Yeah, that is the geekiest poem ever!
Thanks Bob!!!!
I will try, I think it may be a flop!!
You wrote about PHP…I am amazed at how you did that!!!!
That was freakin hilarious!!!!
Great job making the meme fit your blog!
wow i got nothing… lol… this is harder than I thought
That was awesome!
Very Funny!
cool poem about PHP… or was it about the tree?
It was actually a conundrum of many sorts. It was actually about my neighbors dog and the fleas of which bother its skin.
awesome technical poetry skilz you got there bobs!
Thank you
Oh crap…
I just realized that you tagged me!
BTW, I voted for you!
Thank you for the vote – very cool of you! Although, there were a lot of meaningful and interesting poems, especially Kelly’s.
Don’t make me tag you again!