Philippe Gerber<p>Core memories thinking of PHP:</p><p>- PhpMyAdmin and phpBB(2)<br>- Using an index.php that includes another script based on a query param. To not allow direct execution of the script, the index.php would define a constant and the script check for its existence.<br>- register_globals and magic_quotes_gpc and how long it took to eventually get it deprecated.</p><p><a href="https://phpc.social/tags/php" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>php</span></a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/JetBrainsPHPverse2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JetBrainsPHPverse2025</span></a></p>