After 2 months of hustling, the development phase of my first “big” project is over. In this 2 months, I had to spend half of my brain debugging and implementing new features in a now defunct version of a group buying site. Another half was working on the new version of it in the same time. The old version is simply a “tar pit” - spaghetti of PHP HTML MySQL CSS Javascript soup is taking me back to the “good old days”. I simply cannot understand why someone in the 2012 get stuck in the 2001 web development style, I will not allow such non sense in the new version.

In my previous post, I’ve mentioned that it is up to the implementation to define whether the function will behave properly. Another issue that I can came out with is the readability of your code to average Gilbert. I have once written a function, which came back to bite my team. The function briefly return whether the user is activated or not, and return NULL when the user is not found.

Yes. It is been a long time.

This is a repost of a post in Tumblr over a years ago. Time flies and I found the solution.