Cats are too cute to modify
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OK, this is from SMF. Currently it's https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1/blob/release-2.1/Sources/ManageBoards.php#L780 but it will likely change position over time.
Now, please bear in mind it is an easter egg, but to me it's still a CodeSOD.
function ModifyCat() { global $boards, $sourcedir, $smcFunc; // Get some information about the boards and the cats. require_once($sourcedir . '/Subs-Boards.php'); getBoardTree(); // Allowed sub-actions... $allowed_sa = array('add', 'modify', 'cut'); // Check our input. $_POST['id'] = empty($_POST['id']) ? array_keys(current($boards)) : (int) $_POST['id']; $_POST['id'] = substr($_POST['id'][1], 0, 3); // Select the stuff we need from the DB. $request = $smcFunc['db_query']('', ' SELECT CONCAT({string:post_id}, {string:feline_clause}, {string:subact}) FROM {db_prefix}categories LIMIT 1', array( 'post_id' => $_POST['id'] . 's ar', 'feline_clause' => 'e,o ', 'subact' => $allowed_sa[2] . 'e, ', ) ); list ($cat) = $smcFunc['db_fetch_row']($request); // Free resources. $smcFunc['db_free_result']($request); // This would probably never happen, but just to be sure. if ($cat .= $allowed_sa[1]) die(str_replace(',', ' to', $cat)); redirectexit(); }
Let me just talk you through what this is doing.
- Gets the current board tree (hierarchy of boards, sub-boards, whatever)
- Checks a mythical $_POST variable (which is nonsense, no form in the bowels of SMF actually points to the URL that goes to this code)
- If a POST is made with an id parameter, all kinds of WTF emerge where it tries to take a substring of an integer, if not it pulls something from the boards array - which amounts to finding the first element of the board listing, grabbing the first category and taking 'cat' from the 'category' sub-element of that array.
- Performs a query to fudge together a string.
- Performs a string mashup by doing an if on a concatenation (which naturally returns true since the result of $var .= $var2 is a true value provided either variable is non empty)
- Dies with the result string: 'cats are too cute to modify'.
It's cute and all, but for an easter egg that performs multiple database queries to create this string. It's a WTF in my book, I don't know who else will agree
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This thread did not deliver on the promised cats. I was expecting image compression to be disabled for cats and some wonderful code to establish catness.
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This thread did not promise cats.
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Cats is right in the title! THAT IS AN OATH BOUND PROMISE!
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No, the title merely assert('Cats are too cute to modify'). At no point does it promise cats.
I give you cats however.