Entries Tagged as 'php'

PHP and Templating Languages

Recently I’ve been spending a little more time in PHP land and coming across some various tid bits - I freely admit that I’m brand new to PHP and not steeped in it’s lore, but something that always confounded me was the purpose of SMARTY. Turns out SMARTY is a templating language that has garnered [...]

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PHP’s shareability brings all the boys to the yard

A short followup to my PHP post from a couple days back… It spawned some interesting comments that got me thinking some more on the subject. Another post I came across pointed out some other really interesting points about PHP’s architecture.
Both in the comments and on Ian’s blog they note that basically it isn’t the [...]

Categories: perl · php · ruby

Lessons to be learned from PHP

SEE ALSO: PHP’s shareability brings all the boys to the yard
I’ve been reading this latest thread of posts around the net concerning Ruby and shared hosts, or equivalently, ease of installation. Here’s one. Here’s another. And I’m glad, for Ruby, that they are talking about this problem - I hope for their sake they take [...]

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PHP? Ruby?

Update 4: I think I’m going to go with Ruby. And by think, I’m going to grab some books read them and if I’m still psyched about it I’ll start my project. If I’m not psyched, I may switch to PHP. Now I must find some books… suggestions welcome.
Update 3: Everytime I start leaning [...]

Categories: perl · php · ruby