php

PHP is a powerful web scripting language, famous for its ease of use and ability to interact seamlessly with SQL type databases. PHP takes a lot of its syntax from Perl and C++, and it is in this way that programmers familiar with these languages can pick up PHP rather easily.

Advantages: Can be much easier to read than Perl, arguably easier to learn

Disadvantages: Might teach sloppy programming habits (not having to define variables etc) and can be less compact than Perl.

<?php

if("PHP" > "Perl") {

//returns true :p

}

?>

by haze December 30, 2003

PHP

A web scripting language that is simply better than you. It can talk to databases, plug and chug math you only wet-dreamed about, and paint on freaking digital images. It's so cash, it's variables have to start with dollar signs. Rasmus Lerdorf (aka the jizz hammer) invented this beast.

<?php print 'I\'m better than ' . print_r( $_GET ); ?>

by TheEqualizer August 04, 2009

php

(Personal Home Page) Hypertext Preprocessor. A server-side scripting language easilly competent to ASP or JSP. Avalaible on nearly every platform and server, PHP has been embraced by veteran programmers and (unfortunately) newbies alike as the programming language of choice for ad-hoc web processing.

Draws it's syntax structure mainly from c++ and perl, but has roots in java and sed as well.

Often heralded as "better than perl" by newbie code monkeys who've neither used perl nor have any idea that perl's scope of usability far exceeds that of PHP's, (which is reallistically limited to that of processing HTML and interfacing with databases). Ironically, the legions of newbies who are self-proclaimed "php mastaz" have no idea that PHP is frequently trampled in benchmark tests for Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and Database Interface (DBI) by languages like C, C++, Perl, Sed/Awk, and Python.

However, PHP is still the fastest ad-hoc server processing language out (and of course smashes A$P)

"The true power of PHP lies in integration with Perl and C, not in competition"

by Sgt.Bitterpants November 18, 2003

PHP

In reference to the programming language it should stand for Pretty Heinous Programming as the language is so antiquated and such a piece of shit that it barely works without creating a security vulnerability large enough to destroy the universe.

Man that is some seriously PHP on that site! Who the hell wrote this, a 5 year old kid? Oh... no just another PHP programmer...

Why have built in escaped variables and standardized functions on all platforms? Let's just use PHP and do what the fuck ever!

by TheGodDamnBatman September 06, 2013

php

PHP is a server-side scripting language similar to Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology. It is easy to use, but exceptionally powerful and perhaps most importantly it was developed for the web. It outclasses older technology such as perl simply through it's ease of use and effectiveness.

<?php
if($php > $perl) {
echo "php is the greatest, obviously ;)\n";
} else {
echo "php... is *still* the greatest!\n";
}
?>

by Mordan DS September 25, 2003

php

A server-side scripting language that kicks the living shit out of PERL and A$P.

<?php
$arr = array(
"1" => "PERL sucks",
"2" => "ASP sucks"
);

print_r($arr);
?>

by Jim November 13, 2003

php

Web programming language to make websites dynamic.

<?php // Begins php
print "string"; // Displays string
echo "sring"; // Displays string
$a="Left"; Defines variable a
if ($a==="Left") print "A equals Left"; /* If variable a equals Left then display A equals Left */
?>

by John Doe March 29, 2004