Posts Tagged: hell or heaven


5
Dec 09

PHP, Hell or Heaven: Documentation

Hell or Heaven?

Hell or Heaven?

A programming language can be great but if you do not know how it works then it’s (practically) worthless. In general you can say that the documentation is a important part of a programming language. Returning to this series, we can only tag PHP as “Heaven” if it has a good documentation. Now that’s the question we should answer today.

If you have used PHP before you should already now the answer to this question. It is definitely yes. I have never heard someone saying that the documentation was bad or somehow not good enough. Even people who hate PHP can’t disprove that (of course they could try). Continue reading →

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27
Nov 09

PHP, Hell or Heaven: Data types

Hell or Heaven?

Hell or Heaven?

This is the first post of the new series “PHP, Hell or Heaven?”. Today I’m going to talk about data types in PHP and compare their usage with other languages.

In PHP there are multiple data types but the main difference between other languages (especially more low level languages such as C++) is that you can assign any value to any variable. This is also called type juggling. Therefore in PHP the type of an variable is defined by its content and not by the developer or by the way it’s been set-up. Continue reading →

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