Stands for:
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
([DKF]: but originally allegedly stood for Personal Home Page.)
PHP is a [scripting] language mainly designed for [web] development, where it is quite popular--arguably
the single most widely-used server-side language.
This [http://www.php.net] is PHP's home page.
For [Tcl]'s answer to PHP, see [Rivet].
Or try [THP] for a webserver neutral way to embed Tcl code. --CAU
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In the last few years,
"PHP [[has become]] Handy off the Web, Too",
although this article
[http://click.unixreview.email-publisher.com/maaapDjaaSx7xa2scaRb/]
doesn't recommend it for those who already
know Tcl and similar languages.
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In a remarkable newsgroup posting
[http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=vvujr6r1av3hc5%40corp.supernews.com],
[Derk Gwen] provides a recipe for the [C] implementation required to link in a Tcl
library so PHP source can also interpret Tcl.
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See a Tk binding for PHP at [http://php-tk.sourceforge.net/]
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Incidentally, our own [SS] maintains an attractive "web-based interactive shell for PHP"
he and his collaborator call "PHP Interactive"
[http://www.hping.org/phpinteractive/].
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[Sarnold] 2006/01/08 --
This article [http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm] about PHP's use in Yahoo! shows
[Ousterhout's Dichotomy] in application.
I remember of an interview of a member of Yahoo!'s team advocating
strongly in favor of this way to conceive Web programming, notably by putting off some Template Engines
written in pure PHP.
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See also:
* [Comparing Tcl with PHP]
* [PHP under Tclhttpd]
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The following might be an example of PHP in HTML, which however someone on 20 June 2005 posted over the previous contents of this page.
Counting from x to y
$stop) {
return(FALSE);
}
elseif ($increment <= 0) {
return(FALSE);
}
else {
for ($i = $start; $i < $stop; $i = $i + $increment) {
print "$i ";
}
}
return(TRUE);
}
?>
Counting from x to y
Counting from 1 to 10 by 1:
Counting from 2 to 20 by 2:
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