PHP vs otherstuff

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  19 years ago

  by ReyMan

  Kyle Simmons

  Florida, United States

  Joined 19 years ago

  I'm starting on PHP right now...but what are some advantages of learning it? (over like javascript and plain html) Am i going to be able to make a kickass website like this if i get good at it?

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  19 years ago

  by James Crowley

  James Crowley

  London, United Kingdom

  Joined 20 years ago

  Yes! PHP can't really be compared to JavaScript or HTML, as it is run on the server rather than the client. If you know ASP, then PHP is the unix equivilant (except it runs on Windows too!). PHP basically lets you generate pages on the fly depending on the data that has been passed to it. For example, on this site, I don't have 1000 pages with
  /show/1000/
  /show/99/
  etc, I have a PHP script which parses the ID from the URL, and retreives the pages from the database.

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  18 years ago

  by paulfp

  Paul Freeman-Powell

  Liverpool, United Kingdom

  Joined 19 years ago

  ... don't you mean you have an ASP page where a PHP script could do the same thing?

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  18 years ago

  by James Crowley

  James Crowley

  London, United Kingdom

  Joined 20 years ago

  ... at the time I wrote that response, the site was using php

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  18 years ago

  by paulfp

  Paul Freeman-Powell

  Liverpool, United Kingdom

  Joined 19 years ago

  oh rite
  

  
  what made you decide to change to ASP then? isn't PHP supposedly more reliable and fast? dunno, myself, i use both
  

  
  i noticed in a post you'd posted in january that you were taking exams. if you don't mind me enquiring, which level were they? (A2/Uni etc.)
  

  
  also how much do you charge people to advertise here? i'm wondering how much i should charge, i suppose the number of hits is involved... would any advertisers be interested in a 200-a-day site?

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  18 years ago

  by Rob`

  Robert Lidberg

  SWEDEN, Sweden

  Joined 18 years ago

  Linux -> PHP -> SQL
  

  
  The three things you need. Probably Xfree to

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  18 years ago

  by gringod

  Gringod

  London, United Kingdom

  Joined 19 years ago

  you could also do with Apache

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  18 years ago

  by ReyMan

  Kyle Simmons

  Florida, United States

  Joined 19 years ago

  omg this post was like a year old i can't beleive its still on the servers!

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  18 years ago

  by James Crowley

  James Crowley

  London, United Kingdom

  Joined 20 years ago

  ReyMan:
  

  
  yep... must be about as old a post as you can get... haven't bothered to clear up the forum yet though... blame paulfp for bringing it up again
  

  
  paulfp:
  

  
  simple reason? I'd been offered free hosting by MaximumASP, and wanted to take them up on it plus I wanted to learn asp.net anyway, so I went ahead and switched from php to asp.net
  

  
  In January 2002, i was taking an AS physics module, but I'm taking my final A Level exams now
  

  
  advertising.... well... to be honest, it depends who asks us... We usually aim for $2 per 1000 impressions as a minimum, but the banner networks tend to get us far less than that... (we serve around 1 million impressions a month).
  

  
  

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