I miss PHP

sad isn't it

[httpwebwitch]

A year ago I was moved to an all-Microsoft environment, and now I work solely in C#.NET, except for the occasional personal project.

You may have noticed my absence from this forum... I thought I'd poke my head in and say "hi"

I miss PHP... today I was knotting up some pagination in SQL and ASP, and thought, "gosh, if only this was PHP, I could do this with about 10 lines of code and a few pre-rolled functions I have lying around".

[jatar_k]

it happens to the best of us

these days I do PERL

what are you gonna do ;)

[AlexK]

I certainly agree about the scope and functionality of PHP. However, ...

A few days ago I re-picked up a personal 8-year-old project written in Visual Basic 3 which turned out to still run fine on XP (astrological/astronomical chart calculation), and completed the printout function for the charts. After getting my head back up inside of VB after all these years, I was astonished to discover that PHP's use of OOP was no further along today than VB3, written for Windows 3.1.

[JerryOdom]

I love php. Its just easy about everything.

[surfin2u]

I've programmed in a bunch of different languages and people have asked me which is my favorite. My answer, "the one I'm being paid to write in."

I like php just fine these days. It could benefit from improved oop capabilities, I agree. Having to type a dollar sign on the beginning of variable names reminds me of some ancient version of Basic.

[mcavic]

I agree, there's nothing nicer to code in than PHP (and MySQL).

The $ is reminiscent, yes, but it's actually very important. It would be a different language if it was eliminated.

[surfin2u]

I really like that array handling capabilities of php. The richness of its library of functions is another big plus to me. The language is easy to get started with, since a beginner can get by with a subset of the language and library, and learn more later. The icing on the cake is the availability of tons of high-quality, free code.