The other thing to consider (looking at it again, particularly at the second example) is that there are some surprising side effects that can snag newcomers, depending on their background and whatever other languages they know.
Perhaps one of the drawbacks with programming PHP is that you become so desensitized to weirdly inconsistent/surprising behavior that there's almost nothing left to be surprised about.
Most other entries involve doing something bizarre with obviously undefined consequences and then marveling that PHP does it different than they expect. Or failing to understand PHP's basic rules and then again, on edge cases, marveling at weirdness of the perfectly logical result.
The "PHP protected and an assault" entry just fails to comprehend how access modifiers actually work with the classes.
There are real PHP WTF's but honestly they were all discovered 10 years ago. Probably 50% of all entries on the site are people misunderstanding how references work over and over and over.
On the other hand, had you written "perfectly logical result (within the confines of PHP's idea of what's logical)," then I might be inclined to agree.
But yes, I made the mistake of linking the site without re-examining it. I recall seeing it first from HN some time ago (probably 2010ish) and thought it might have improved. I do believe I may have indicated its quality isn't on par with wtfjs.org, however. Take it as you will.
