Advanced terms
Vector Clocks — Distributed Causality
A vector clock is a data structure — one counter per node — that tracks causal ordering of events across distributed nodes without a shared clock, enabling detection of concurrent events and causal relationships.
6mo ago
Architecture advanced
Variable Variables ($$var) Risks
PHP 3.0+
$$var creates a variable whose name is the value of $var — using it with user input allows arbitrary variable access/creation and is effectively a backdoor.
6mo ago
Security advanced
Visitor Pattern
PHP 5.0+
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A behavioural pattern that separates an algorithm from the objects it operates on — adding new operations to a class hierarchy without modifying those classes.
6mo ago
Code Quality advanced