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PHP

Latest Version:
4.3.2

Developer:
PHP Group

Category:
Web Development

Platform:
Most Unix variants, Windows

License:
Freeware

Rating:
10.0 (1 vote)

Date added:
Jan 4th, 2001

Last updated:
Jun 1st, 2003

Review:
PHP is a popular server-side HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP can collect form data, generate dynamic page content and process cookies. It supports a wide range of databases including mSQL, MySQL, MS-SQL, ODBC, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. PHP also supports a wide range of protocols including IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, and POP3. PHP borrows from the best of the Perl and C worlds, and has hundreds of built-in functions to simplify most common web development tasks.

User reviews:

DN1282 (11) - Nov 9th, 2002

Features
10

Usability
10

Performance
10

Documentation
10

Personal Slant
10

Overall 10.0

PHP is no doubt the language of choice for server side scripting today. I think most programmers today are familiar with the C-style syntax (who isn't???), so the learning curve will be super small when learning PHP. I basically got familiar with PHP in a few hours. The syntax is almost the same as C and now all any C-familiar programmer has to do is open up the PHP manual and learn some of the built-in functions and he's set! :)

kandieman101 (12) - Sep 16th, 2002
I think PHP is a great language. It is extremely easy to learn, using lots of english-word commands which makes it extremely understandable. The only problem I see for beginners to PHP, as I experienced it myself, was the error messages. Some of the error messages can be very confusing and mis-leading.

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