View Poll Results: Why PHP?
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it's easy
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can be used on all major operating systems
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has support for a wide range of databases
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it's free
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for a C (C++) programmer its syntax looks good
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it's largely used
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it's used in Codeguru site
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I have learn it in my college
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my boss impose me to use it
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other (please specify)
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October 12th, 2004, 01:00 AM
#1
Why PHP?
Which of these arguments you consider are important to chose PHP between other similar scripting languages?
Also, please feel free to criticize any of them you consider it's not true.
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October 12th, 2004, 02:12 AM
#2
Re: Why PHP?
Note that you can check multiple choices in this poll.
Any comment is welcomed.
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October 12th, 2004, 01:55 PM
#3
Re: Why PHP?
In my opinion its easy and free are the best reasons. I've been doing ASP for about 8 years and doing PHP for nearly two just for fun. PHP is loads easier, and I would be in heaven if my boss allowed us to use it, but unfortunately everyone is committed to .NET like its so wonderful or something, when PHP 5 is loads better. So I will continue to use .NET cause its my job but for my own sites I can do more, faster, more easily, and cheaper with PHP.
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October 14th, 2004, 03:37 AM
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Re: Why PHP?
I think the most important reason of using php is not that it is free, but the fact that it work so well with MySql which is free. Even the yahoo guys gave up on yscript and turned to php.
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October 17th, 2004, 09:36 AM
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Re: Why PHP?
it's easy / it's free / for a C (C++) programmer its syntax looks good
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October 17th, 2004, 10:18 AM
#6
Re: Why PHP?
PHP is COOL
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October 17th, 2004, 11:33 AM
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Re: Why PHP?
Originally Posted by marsh_pottaye
it's easy / it's free / for a C (C++) programmer its syntax looks good
I agree.
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October 19th, 2004, 09:29 AM
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October 19th, 2004, 10:28 AM
#9
Re: Why PHP?
Well, I used to code in ASP. But since I learned PHP, I can see it is much better!
All consequences are eternal in some way.
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October 22nd, 2004, 07:51 AM
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October 22nd, 2004, 11:39 AM
#11
Re: Why PHP?
The only reason I like PHP is because it is popular.
There is some stuff I DEFINITELY DONT LIKE about it:
1. include and require directive are very funny in resolving relative paths, see this discussion: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/show...eadid=10284093
2. One cannot have local extensions only for a shared site. Extensions are installed for the whole PHP parsing engine, and admins are afraid of them, because they may mess up shared host machines (which host several unrelated sites for customers). THats a no-no for a popular server scripting solution.
3. Again, shared hosts are a pain-in-the-*** in PHP. Just consider your site lying under physical path reported by PHP to be c:/wwwroot/sharedhosts/mydomain.com/. When using include as <include '/mydir/myfile.html/'> it willa actually look in c:/ and not in the above mentioned shared host path. This makes hosting a shared site a big problem.
4. One cannot do a binary data manipulation. If one could, I would already develop my own JPEG/GIF/PNG compression/decompression library in PHP without having to use all those ImageMagick and GD stuff I despise so much.
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October 26th, 2004, 07:24 AM
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Re: Why PHP?
Originally Posted by ovidiucucu
Don't be , don't be , don't ! You are really lucky, man.
Right. I just have taken a look in a Cold Fusion and an ASP manual, and now I'm
Hokutata Yakubotu
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November 1st, 2004, 05:07 AM
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Re: Why PHP?
Originally Posted by Hokutata
Right. I just have taken a look in a Cold Fusion and an ASP manual, and now I'm
Just curious... WHY?
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January 20th, 2005, 04:32 PM
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Re: Why PHP?
Originally Posted by Amn
There is some stuff I DEFINITELY DONT LIKE about it:
3. Again, shared hosts are a pain-in-the-*** in PHP. Just consider your site lying under physical path reported by PHP to be c:/wwwroot/sharedhosts/mydomain.com/. When using include as <include '/mydir/myfile.html/'> it willa actually look in c:/ and not in the above mentioned shared host path. This makes hosting a shared site a big problem.
That is because you don't understand the path correctly. /mydir equates to c:\mydir in the Windows world. You need to include './mydir/myfile.php' instead.
Originally Posted by Amn
4. One cannot do a binary data manipulation. If one could, I would already develop my own JPEG/GIF/PNG compression/decompression library in PHP without having to use all those ImageMagick and GD stuff I despise so much.
Where did you get the idea that you cannot manipulate binary data ? Thats just not true, you absolutely can. If you think you can do better than GD or ImageMagick, then by all means go ahead and do it.
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February 5th, 2005, 04:11 PM
#15
Re: Why PHP?
Why PHP?
Because it is the best, yet most felxible web dev language ever, plus, it's free!!!
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