PHP 5.2.6

Publisher's Description:

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. It is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.

Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	guti	May 2, 2008
Version:	5.2.6
Lots of nice features natively of by using extensions. Pretty easy web development. Some bugs exists version after version, due to its complexity, by they tend to be fixed early. In terms of speed, in the beginnings, it was faster than ASP, and on pair with Coldfusion. Nowadays, it has outperformed Coldfusion, but is not as fast as ASP.NET.
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Reviewer:	Briantist	Nov 13, 2007
Version:	5.2.5
You can't find a better language than PHP. Used to C++? PHP can do your OO programming. Like your procedural language like BASIC or MODULA2? PHP can do it... PHP, of course, works brilliantly with mySQL, which gives the world LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). PHP is also a great AJAX backend too. I've used many langages and PHP is all of them!
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Reviewer:	acey99	Jun 1, 2007
Version:	5.2.3
I've used Both PHP & ASP PHP has most things built in if not you can add it, usually FREE. ASP relies on MS & other vendors to add to it & usually costs $$$. PHP = C/Perl Based ASP = VB Based. you be the judge.
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Reviewer:	UniversityofKentucky	Jun 1, 2007
Version:	5.2.3
Acey - I agree that FPDF is excellent. I use/love it. Only caveat is it hasn't been updated since 12/04. Still I won't complain about freeware. ds0934 - You are correct about the benefits of various scripting languages. But it's ignorant to rank PHP low b/c you prefer ASP and, as you indicated, you have limited experience with PHP. I have limited experience with ASP, but wouldn't give it a mediocre rating b/c of that.
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Reviewer:	acey99	May 3, 2007
Version:	5.2.2
WRFan: get a clue, dump pdflib in favor of fpdf free, better, & customizable :) PHP Rocks!
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