US State Names and Abbreviations as PHP Arrays
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US State Names and Abbreviations as PHP Arrays
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#2I'll gladly admit that I didn't get it.
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#3https://gist.github.com/maxrice/2776900#gistcomment-1200768
"Here is the list without Delaware" almost made me spit-take.
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#4Haha I love when spontaneously some joke takes off, even if the joke doesn't make much sense
;)
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#5I'm surprised PHP doesn't already have US_state_name_to_abbreviation() and US_state_abbreviation_to_name() baked in already. This is a language that supports[0] Swatch Internet time[1]. Literally, a "time" format made up as a gimmick to advertise one specific brand of wristwatch from the late 1990s.
I hope someone on Hacker News who contributes to the PHP core can attempt to correct this discrepancy.
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#6That went from "Oh cool, I'll bookmark that" to "hey waaait a minute" real quick.
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#7I made the website http://devdata.io for this exact reason. You can get an array/list/object of US state names and abbreviations (and lots of other datasets) in any language supported (currently JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, and Lua).
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#8Completely lost it at
Re: US State Names and Abbreviations as PHP Arrays
#9I'm surprised PHP doesn't already have US_state_name_to_abbreviation() and US_state_abbreviation_to_name() baked in already. This is a language that supports[0] Swatch Internet time[1]. Literally, a "time" format made up as a gimmick to advertise one specific brand of wristwatch from the late 1990s. I hope someone on Hacker News who contributes to the PHP core can attempt to correct this discrepancy. [0] http://www.p…
I suspect it would be US_state_name_to_abbreviation() and USStateAbbr2Name() in order to meet PHP's consistency requirements.
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#10Completely lost it at _temp.php, evals, temporary variable names... I'm getting flashbacks.
file_get_contents should make an http request to its own server for maximum awesomeness...
assuming the php file just echoes its own source code,which is entirely doable.