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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 06:45:02 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gareth Heyes: Tweetable PHP-Non Alpha]]></title>
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<i>Gareth Heyes</i> has a new post that <a href="http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2012/12/13/tweetable-php-non-alpha/">shares some of his efforts</a> to write "non-alpha PHP", using characters other than the alpha-numeric ones to write executable PHP scripts. In his case, this involves a lot of pluses, underscores and square brackets.
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I started to try and break the 10 charset limit of PHP non-alpha after @InsertScript showed me that PHP Dev supports [] syntax for arrays. I wondered if it would be possible to break the limit within production PHP. At first I thought you could but then after some testing I found that there was no way to concat without "." and no way to call a string as a function without $ and =. However since I got into PHP Non-alpha again I thought why not try and improve it and make the code tweetable.
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He works through the whole process of his discovery - starting with the creation of a non-alpha version of "0" (zero), moving into letter creation and finally all the way up to a full word..."assert". The result is tweetable code that echoes that string and contains more symbols than letters. If you're interested in more of this non-alpha kind of coding, check out some of the other posts on <a href="http://www.thespanner.co.uk/">his blog</a>.
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:40:25 -0600</pubDate>
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