Title: Re: Looking for someone to create/modify software for this forum [1100+ BTC] Post by: jothan on January 24, 2012, 04:55:49 AM Are you dead set on PHP? I know PHP, but I really am loving python. For better or worse, PHP is the BASIC of the web, with all that it implies and I am in a good mood about PHP today. I speak from experience, I have used PHP extensively starting in 2003. I have also, over time, called it:
When the PHP devs could have taken a good decision, they have almost always made the bad one. The result is:
Edit: I forgot to mention: useless dollars signs everywhere that remind you how much $ you could be making coding with any other language. You will not regret picking any language over PHP. Python is heavenly compared to it. Sorry for bashing, but this is hard-felt experience. Title: Re: Looking for someone to create/modify software for this forum [1100+ BTC] Post by: theymos on January 24, 2012, 04:41:12 PM PHP is my favorite language for small projects. It's far from the best language for any task, but it has so many built-in functions that you can do anything with it. I've even written a little Bitcoin network client with it.
No exceptions thrown from functions that wrap system calls. You can use ErrorException to change this. I forgot to mention: useless dollars signs everywhere that remind you how much $ you could be making coding with any other language. There's a reason for this, though it probably could have been done in a better way. Text after a dollar sign is just a string representing the variable name, so you can do stuff like this: Code: //Assign "asdf" to the variable whose name is contained in $varname Code: //creates variables like $param1,$param2, etc. |