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Ive been looking around at some sites for information on understanding
PHP. I've come to the conclusion that PHP is basically BASIC.
With quite a few more features tossed in purely for the internet.

With my extensive background in BASIC, I believe I could incorporate
PHP in my site and use it the same way I would BASIC on my PC.

As I know a lot of people just don't like javascript, the menu I'm
working on now can't be used unless JS is turned on. So I believe the
same thing could be served better with PHP. Since PHP is server side,
browsers wouldn't know the difference. I may even have a bit more
flexibility with it.

Any one know of any PHP servers for the PC {vista} outside of wamp?

richard wrote:
> Ive been looking around at some sites for information on understanding
> PHP. I've come to the conclusion that PHP is basically BASIC.
> With quite a few more features tossed in purely for the internet.

Cannot fathom how you came to that conclusion. It has many "Perl"-ish
functions and syntax, not BASIC at all.


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In article <>,
"Safalra (Stephen Morley)" <> wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:21:00 -0700, Jim Moe wrote:
> > On 08/30/08 12:32 pm, richard wrote:
> >> Ive been looking around at some sites for information on understanding
> >> PHP. I've come to the conclusion that PHP is basically BASIC.
> >> With quite a few more features tossed in purely for the internet.
> >>
> > They are the same in that they are interpreted languages, rather than
> > compiled.
>
>
> <pedantic>Actually, there are several compiled versions of BASIC - some
> such as Blitz BASIC only had a compiler and no interpreter. Of course,
> there are also PHP compilers available...</pedantic>
>
>
> > PHP = PHP Hypertext Processor. So, yes, it has a number of unique
> > features for working in an web environment. It is more like the C language
> > than perl.
>
>
> It has a bit of everything thrown in - just look at the function names. [1]
> Unfortunately in many cases it's the worst bits of everything.
>
>
> [1] Aaron Crane wrote "Function names (and semantics) have been liberally
> borrowed from Unix system calls (unlink), the C standard library (strcspn),
> and Perl (split), among other places. Some function names have multiple
> words separated by underscores (str_replace); others have words squashed
> together (strtoupper). Some functions have aliases, like disk_free_space
> and diskfreespace."

But, at the end of the day, who gives a monkey's? At least it *has* all
this functionality and ability to API to mysql, sqlite, etc etc.