LdnPHP Trivia June 17th, 2015

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Language
 - In the function strpos which comes first: the haystack or the needle?
	haystack, needle
 - What does the acronym "SPL" stand for?
	Standard PHP Library
 - Aside from inheriting these via genes, they're also good for horizontal code re-use
	Traits
 - Your only hope of implementing this interface is via Iterator or IteratorAggregate
	Traversable
 - SplStack and SplQueue both extend this common base class
	SplDoublyLinkedList

History
 - Before it stood for "PHP Hypertext Processor" what did "PHP" stand for?
	Personal Home Page
 - What version of PHP introduced json_encode and json_decode
	5.2
 - This was the main feature of PHP 6 but ultimately resulted in the version being scrapped
	Unicode
 - This long-standing "feature" in PHP, responsible for countless security issues, has been disabled by
    default since version 4.2 and was finally removed in 5.4
	register_globals
 - This jump operator was added as a joke to PHP 5.3 and if used might result in you getting attacked by a raptor
	goto

Ecosystem
 - This duo of utilities, created by two European developers, ushered in by PSR-0, is used to distribute shared code
	composer & packagist
 - What was the latest accepted PSR by the PHP-FIG? .5 for the #
	Http Messsage Interfaces (PSR-7)
 - This tiny dependency injection container is used by the Silex framework and also shares its name with a blemish of the skin
	Pimple
 - The purple plush elephant was created to support which PHP group?
	PHP Women
 - This _wildly_ popular framework uses the proxy pattern as a core feature but masquerades them as something else? .5 for the name
	Laravel (Facades)
 
Community
 - What is the name of this near by annually held conference that is the largest PHP conference in Canada?
	True North PHP
 - What does "FIG" in the group "PHP-FIG" stand for?
	Framework Interoperability Group
 - Who is the female engineer at Facebook who literally wrote the book on writing PHP extensions?
	Sara Golemon
 - This beloved nomad is the only member of PHP-FIG who is not affiliated with a project
	Cal Evans
 - This loud mouth, not to be mistaken for his like-named kin large mouth, hails from the city Bristol
	Phil Sturgeon

Design
 - This group of hooligans wrote the book on design patterns and haven been coined with this name
	Gang of Four
 - This popular anti-pattern used in much web development originated as an architectural pattern meant for user interfaces
	Model-View-Controller (MVC)
 - Name the design pattern that would have a class take an instance of its same Interface to add functionality to the original instance
	Decorator
 - What does the "I" stand for in the acronym SOLID
	Interface segregation principle
 - Name one of the two things that define a high order function
	Takes a function as input or returns a function

Final WTF
 - What is the result of `print '2'.5`
	parse error
 - What is the default max recursion depth of json_decode?
	512
 - What are the two differences between print and echo?
	print returns 1 whereas echo returns void
	echo can take multiple parameters
 - What does the error "Unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM" mean?
	Unexpected double colon (::)
 - What are the four ways to represent a string in PHP?
	single quotes, double quotes, heredoc, nowdoc