PHP

Computing: Software: PHP

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PHP is an interpreted language most commonly used in web sites.

Reference

• Official PHP Website
• Wikipedia
• PHP Wiki

Related Articles

• Perl vs. PHP
• register_globals

Related Things

Coding Resources

• PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR)
  • official web site

Users Groups

• Triangle PHP Users Group: The Triangle, NC

Links

• 2006-07-22 Why Global Variables in PHP is Bad Programming Practice
• Experiences of Using PHP in Large Websites
• un-PHP-ing my web site: a LiveJournal entry critical of PHP

Notes

One of the major weaknesses of PHP as a serious programming language is its lack of any way to require variable declaration before usage -- the equivalent of "use strict;" in Perl or "Option Explicit" in Visual Basic. Here is a brief discussion of this problem, with a workaround which might be useful in some situations (but not if you need to turn off warnings for other reasons, such as needing to suppress messages about duplicate http headers).