PHP? The Best?

[JohnR]

Php, is by far, expanding server side programming. It's giving us programmers a huge advantage on other languages. It has so many features and it keeps it so simple that you really cant go wrong using it. Basically, what I am asking is do you think PHP is the best scripting language?

 

[Mr_Snipes]

I don't know if I would really call it the best scripting language. I have JSP it was fairly simple. Actually just like using Java except that it was scripting. So I think it has everything to do with preference. I don't really have a preference yet as to what scripting language is the best.

 

[JohnR]

Yeah, I guess it does count on ones preference. I personally never tried Java or any side product of Java. I alway heard it was extremely hard anyway.

 

[Penguin]

I prefer PHP to javascript. It seems to me to be more "logical" (as in, how things are named and referred to) than what javascript I've seen.

 

[Mirage]

Javascript has always been confusing to me. I REALLY like PHP, and as far as I'm concerned it's my favorite to use.

I haven't used ASP though. I do think that for almost any website need, the combination of PHP and MySQL is all you need.

 

[JohnR]

It is more than what you need. But there is one thing I have always wondered, is there a possible way to code PHP in a GUI software?

 

[Penguin]

I don't see why you would want a GUI for PHP. PHP doesn't, in my opinion, lend itself to GUI usage. There's too much *to* it, IMO, to translate well to a "WYSIWYG" type interface.

 

[Mr_Snipes]

I don't see why you would want a GUI for PHP. PHP doesn't, in my opinion, lend itself to GUI usage. There's too much *to* it, IMO, to translate well to a "WYSIWYG" type interface.

I would have to agree. I think PHP was specifically designed to be used on the web as a language that enables the use of databases with websites. If you are using a web browser as your GUI with HTML to display, then PHP works fine just like this site. But if you are talking about a GUI that is written in PHP, then I don't that works. I don't think PHP is even designed to be able to do something like that.

 

[JohnR]

I would have to agree. I think PHP was specifically designed to be used on the web as a language that enables the use of databases with websites. If you are using a web browser as your GUI with HTML to display, then PHP works fine just like this site. But if you are talking about a GUI that is written in PHP, then I don't that works. I don't think PHP is even designed to be able to do something like that.

I guess you two are correct. It would be a bit difficult to do something like this anyway.

 

[Eilt_Druin]

It is actually possible to create GUI based programs in PHP. However, you need special packages to be able to do it. One is called PHP-GTK, I believe. I looked into this sort of thing a couple of years ago, but the technology wasn't really at a usable state then.