| Re: What *tasks* are hard for PHP? [message #172074 is a reply to message #172040] |
Sat, 29 January 2011 18:37   |
Twayne
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You repeat yourself; every negative you've given to PHP is incorrect as
you've already been advised. Until you know from experience, you're just
guessing. And, you've missed the two most reliable sources on the 'net for
PHP. Where you're "coming from" has almost no meaning to the question you
asked.
HTH,
Twayne`
n news:Qis0p.20671$TZ4(dot)9939(at)newsfe20(dot)iad,
P E Schoen <paul(at)pstech-inc(dot)com> typed:
> "axtens" wrote in message
> news:97691f21-90c5-42a6-8b63-76ae6154883d(at)d23g2000prj(dot)googlegroups(dot)com...
>
>> I've asked this question on my blog. See
>> < http://codeaholic.blogspot.com/2011/01/php-what-cant-or-wouldnt-you-do-in-p hp.html>.
>> No flames required. No discussion about language semantics
>> or implementation either (if at all possible). I just want
>> to get an idea of what can and can't be done with PHP at
>> the task level.
>
> Most of the comparisons I've found are biased one way or
> another. Coming from a background of relatively strongly typed languages
> such as Borland Delphi and C, I have found both of these interpreted
> languages frustrating and difficult to understand. Here are a few
> opinions:
> http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/phpvscgi.shtml
> http://www.netconcepts.com/php-versus-perl/
> http://shlang.com/php-perl-comparison.php
> http://www.whenpenguinsattack.com/2006/08/08/php-vs-perl/
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/15460/perl_vs_php_vs_ruby
> http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Perl_vs_PHP
>
> It is handy to be able to include PHP within HTML. There
> are many sometimes conflicting modules for Perl (such as DateTime). PHP
> does
> not seem to have the equivalent of Strict, Warnings and Taint checking.
> And
> I found PHP file I/O to be simpler (or more C-like):
>
> Here is an example of straightforward and simple file I/O
> in PHP: $fHTMLrawfile = "Raw.htm";
> $fHTMLraw = fopen($fHTMLrawfile, 'r') or die("can't
> open file"); if (filesize($fHTMLrawfile) > 0)
> $html = fread($fHTMLraw, filesize($fHTMLrawfile));
> else
> $html = 'N/A';
> fclose($fHTMLraw);
>
> A similar operation in Perl requires line by line iteration
> (or possibly a lower level function, or reading into an array and then
> assembling the string):
> if (-e $HTMLpurefile){
> open (fHTMLpure, '<', $HTMLpurefile);
> my $line;
> $in{$key} = "";
> while( $line = <fHTMLpure> ){
> $in{$key} .= $line;
> }
> close fHTMLpure; }
>
> I now have a PHP script which is executed within my Perl
> script, but I might consider rewriting the entire thing in PHP. Maybe it
> would
> be a good learning experience to try a bit more than a trivial helper
> script in PHP, and then I'll be able to make a more educated choice. At
> this point, I don't really like either one. Maybe I should just do it in
> C!
>
> Sorry if this is not exactly on topic or just presents the
> results of a search, but I think it's helpful, at least for me, to have
> this information on usenet.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
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