PHP

Discussions about PHP as an open-source server-side scripting language.

Ruby vs. PHP (Intro)

Written by Ken Nordquist on March 30, 2012

One of the key differences in the languages (Ruby vs. PHP) is the level of “object-orientation,” and (obviously) syntax. Ruby was designed from the start (~1993) to be an object-oriented (OO) language (EVERYTHING is an object) while PHP was, until recently (v5.0 – 2004), a procedural language. As a long-time PHP programmer who migrated to Ruby in 2006, I prefer Ruby’s implementation of Types and Objects over PHP's. I also prefer Ruby’s syntax AND coding best-practices over PHP’s.

Why is "Everything is an Object" in Ruby and not PHP?  (I know those of you who are ...

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Parameter Order in PHP's Built-In Functions

Written by Ken Nordquist on May 19, 2011

There does seem to be a "method to the madness" in the parameter order of PHP's built-in functions. 

For array functions the order is (needle, haystack).

For string functions, the order is (haystack, needle).

Array Function Example (needle, haystack):

array_key_exists( mixed $key , array $search )

String Function Example (haystack, needle):

stripos ( string $haystack , string $needle [, int $offset = 0 ] )

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