Comments on: PHP vs Perl part II

By: Iron

Iron — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:44:27 +0000

Honestly, the Perl code is much easier on the eyes :)

By: dblackshell

dblackshell — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:37:47 +0000

$handle = fopen(’file’, ‘r’);
echo fread($handle, filesize(’file’));

2 lines. :)
you don’t close the handle in perl :P

By: luke

luke — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:26:32 +0000

For file reading ( and so for any other thing ) you can use a function to encapsulate that complexity, like:

function readTextFile( $filepath ){

$fd = fopen($filepath, ‘r’); //or die(’Can’t read file: ‘ . $filepath);

while(!feof($fd)){
$buffer .= fgets($fd, 4096);
}
fclose($fd);

return $buffer;
}
____________________

…and then have only one line of code

print(readTextFile($path));

or pass an entire file to a String array: $myArray = file($path);

with that built-in function. This is no complex at all….

By: PHP vs Perl (final) | /dev/iron

PHP vs Perl (final) | /dev/iron — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:03:59 +0000

[...] post I discussed the sick amount of functions in PHP compared to Perl, in the second one the reason why writing Perl applications goes faster and now in this third and final post, I’ll discuss external [...]

By: Iron

Iron — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:37:34 +0000

I have almost zero experience using shopping carts, but I’ve seen a lot of websites using osCommerce, but also Squirrelcart. I think you won’t be needing any PHP knowledge for using them.

By: Dobbin

Dobbin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:41:35 +0000

Okay. You said it. PHP is the most powerful language for websites, but how would I know, I don’t write code. Like html, I’d learn it as I go along.

I want to switch to an PHP website with logins, cart, and stuff, stuff, stuff. So I’m asking - and people are telling me - to us osCommerce.

Tell me what to use.