Tag : programming

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 ] )

Which is “better” for developing web apps – Ruby or PHP? I recently saw a question on LinkedIn which inspired me to add my two cents to the discussion…

The key difference in the languages (Ruby vs. PHP) are the level of “object-orientation,” and (obviously) syntax. Ruby was designed from the start (~1993) to be an object-oriented language (EVERYTHING is an object) while PHP was, until recently (v5.0 – 2004), a procedural language (an example would be PHP v4.x’s use of the class name as a method for initialization vs. PHP 5.x’s use of __construct). As a ...