Re: PHP primer for Perl hacker?

Picking up PHP from perl is a cakewalk, I had to do it for my job, but here are a few pointers.

print is now echo, single vs. double quotes still applies, ALL variables are $foo, remember your <?php ?> tags for web pages, require is now include('file.php') if you want to organize your code, and checking /var/log/httpd/error_log is still very good ;)

as for mysql: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php and http://php.net is your friend.

amt.

perlcheat

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Re^2: PHP primer for Perl hacker? by revdiablo (Prior) on Dec 15, 2004 at 21:20 UTC
If you search at http://php.net, you will see that PHP has both `print` and `require` functions. It's worth pointing out that PHP's `require` is different from Perl's in a number of ways (PHP's `require` is more similar to Perl's EXPR form of do), but PHP's `include` is even more different. The closest thing PHP has to Perl's require is probably `require_once`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: PHP primer for Perl hacker? by bart (Canon) on Dec 15, 2004 at 23:55 UTC
A big difference between Perl and PHP is that a syntax error is not a fatal error (it just interrupts loading the current file), while a doubly defined function, is. And yes, in case you're wondering: in perl, it's exactly the opposite.	[reply]