PHP is a quick&dirty embedded scripting language, made for web pages. It kinda/sorta resembles perl or C syntax. Main reason i like it, is its easy. A real programmer might be better off in perl, but perl warps my tiny brain. anyway, i used to compile PHP as a cgi.bin so i could write all my DBMS scripts in it. could backup and reload databases in just a few lines with PHP. made the transition from Informix to MySQL painless..heh -- ======================================================================== Rocky McGaugh Atipa Linux Solutions Linux Systems Engineer www.atipa.com rocky@smluc.org rmcgaugh@atipa.com ======================================================================== On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
What is PHP , whats it based on or similar to ??
At 12:08 PM 1/14/2000 -0600, Rocky McGaugh wrote:
i'd personally use PHP + GNU/MySQL or PostgreSQL.
PHP simply ROCKS.
fast, easy, popular, great DB support. PHP supports easy use of templates, so its easy to define a look once, and then just apply that look to all your work, allowing you to spend your time workin on the code.
anyway, check out www.php.net and www.mysql.com
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