Yes the question is that if you use PHP for your sites or as a development tool then what are the things that you like about PHP. What are the advantages and drawbacks of PHP.

As a programmer myself I would like to make an opening comment that I have never seen such a beautiful programming language ever. It is robust and easy. Its fun playing in PHP and making wonderfull web applications.

Post your opinions on it.

Easy, Flexible and a great programming language.

I can only think about the advantages of PHP. I don't know about any disadvantages of it. As I have never thought about it in past.

The best thing I like about php is that I know php :grin:

for me its better coz its free....easily available and most importantly comes as a defult with most web hosts!!

I'd have to agree with Pranav. I also find that PHP is a lot easier :] (The free part is also awesome, hehe.)

Because it is everywhere, has so many free applications and comes with every hosting package I have ever seen.

However, IMHO, it has ugly syntax.

e.g.

Dollar signs in front of variables? UGLY!

Using "->" instead of "." to refer to object/class properties? UGLY!

Untyped variables? UGLY!

i think its not that ugly if you are used to programming!!

I am used to programming delphi, java, c#, actionscript which have:

variables with no dollar signs
use of dot notation to reference object/class properties
strongly typed variables

Also Coldfusion which has the above except only method arguments/returns can be typed, there is no strongly typed variables.

:tongue:

Well, the one thing that really gets on my nerves is that PHP has no namespace support. Does anyone know what I mean?

I used to code some pages in PHP a long time ago... but, now I just use html again.

I will be honest and say that I do not know how to code in PHP off of the top of my head. I have a lot of software that helps me along so that I do not have to know each and every command line and type everything perfect. Does anyone here use PHP for all of their projects? What program do you use to edit it?

hey the default PHP surely doesnt have any namespace but there are around 40 php frameworks which support component based PHP developement and also many other features like AJAX and MVC.
go here to read more!

http://comparelinux.com/2007/05/15/php-frameworks/

I use php for every project of mine which is related to website development.

I use Notepad. Just simple notepad which comes with windows. To code my php projects. I had started php myself and at that time no one was around to tell me which editor to use. On the contrary I was not even knowing that editors existed. So I am really acquainted with using Notepad for my php projects.

It might sound funny but I have made projects ranging from 150,000 lines to 300,000 lines of php code scaling upto 1200+ php files in the notepad. And on my old PC which I had owned from 2002 and am still loving it much.