{"id":8378,"date":"2014-01-27T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8378"},"modified":"2014-01-27T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T20:52:13","slug":"php-function-naming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/php-function-naming\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Function Naming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.php.net\/php.internals\/70691\">Rasmus Lerdorf<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=6919216\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/news.php.net\/php.internals\/70691\"><p>htmlspecialchars was a\nvery early function. Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the\nfunction hashing mechanism was strlen(). In order to get a nice hash\ndistribution of function names across the various function name lengths\nnames were picked specifically to make them fit into a specific length\nbucket.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rasmus Lerdorf (via Hacker News): htmlspecialchars was a very early function. Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was strlen(). In order to get a nice hash distribution of function names across the various function name lengths names were picked specifically to make them fit into a specific length [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,359,71],"class_list":["post-8378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-languagedesign","tag-php","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}