I don't like php - but it seems to be all over the place. It seems like if want to do web development work, they want you to know php.
But in a perfect world, is PHP neccessary or even ideal to do the things it' used for moving forward? Maybe it is, I don't know.
It seems very database oriented - like you better know SQL if you know PHP o else you're kinda missing something.
Then there's all the darn ?'s and $'s all over the place that don't make thi any easier to read. Sure those things are nifty when it's jquery tacking on javascript, but as a core element of the language seem to make it more difficult to read.
I don't like php - but it seems to be all over the place. It seems like if you want to do web development work, they want you to know php.
But in a perfect world, is PHP neccessary or even ideal to do the things it's used for moving forward? Maybe it is, I don't know.
It seems very database oriented - like you better know SQL if you know
PHP or else you're kinda missing something.
Then there's all the darn ?'s and $'s all over the place that don't make things any easier to read. Sure those things are nifty when it's jquery tacking on javascript, but as a core element of the language seem to
make it more difficult to read.
There's tons of crap that runs on PHP, but is any of it really cool in
any way? I want to see something cool that came from php so I can be
like, oh wow, you can do that with PHP - i want to do that.
talking about. It's a 'dirty' language. Reminds me more than a bit of Perl, except at least Perl knew what the hell STDOUT was for. When you
couple that with the horribly duct-taped together OO syntax (at least
last time I checked, which was nearing 10 years ago), and some of the other fugly options, yeah... It gets kind of nasty.
I think STDOUT makes more sense on a command line context, as that's what STDOUT was designed for. I don't think STDOUT makes that much sense in a web context. If you were to try to write to STDOUT with PHP, I wonder if the output would show up on the server's console (if it had a console window open for the server).
I started playing with PHP OO syntax about 5 or 6 years ago (with PHP 5, I think). I didn't think it was too bad. It has the notion of access levels (private & public), constructors, and class methods, which is more than what JavaScript has.
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