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Tomas' PHP StuffI see that this is your first visit to this page. This section of my website is used as a testing ground for some PHP based scripts. I'm pretty new to PHP. As you may have seen from other parts of my site, I'm really a C programmer who has recently had to learn some web stuff. At work I spend all day in the world of C#. If you are familiar with C#, you know that it's the cornerstone programming language of Microsoft's .NET technology. The problem there, is that one is limited to Windows platforms using IIS to serve up pages. In contrast, PHP is a run-anywhere scripting language. PHP based pages can be served using Apache on Unix/Linux/Windows and IIS on Windows platforms. File are distributed easily, since they are scripts. You do not need to compile your code prior to distribution. Simply load them on to your web server and you are good-to-go (assuming that your server is configured to serve PHP pages). Based on what I have seen thus far, it is obvious that the language was developed by some "C" programmers. In fact some "C" functions have found themselves directly into the PHP language. Functions such as "strstr" have been ported virtually intact. If you stick around computers long enough, you probably know that businesses run on databases. So PHP offers support for various database back-ends including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, mySQL, PostgreSQL, mSQL and others. In addition, modules are avilable for other libraries such as FTP, IMAP/POP3/ NNTP, Mail, PDF and XML. Here is a listing of the files in this area of the website.
This was relatively easy to do with PHP. The smiliarity to C was a great help. |
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