PHP

PHP is an HTML-embedded, server-side scripting language. It runs everywhere, and does the same stuff that ASP, JSP, etc. do, but (usually) better. Wikipedia is written in it, Yahoo uses it, and so on. It basically works and doesn't get in my way too much. PHP the language is pretty terrible and inconsistent, but the platform as a whole adds up to making PHP a very good tool.

Inconsistencies

I can never remember the argument order of many of the functions in PHP, mostly because they're inconsistent. So, here's a quick reference of the problem functions:

Functions that take $haystack, $needle:

http://php.net/strpos
http://php.net/strstr

Functions that take $needle, $haystack:

http://php.net/in_array
http://php.net/array_search

Functions that take $callback, $array:

http://php.net/array_map

Functions that take $array, $callback:

http://php.net/array_walk
http://php.net/usort

Code Snippets

How I do templating in PHP:


<?php
function template($name, $args=NULL){
    $er = error_reporting(E_ALL&~E_NOTICE&~E_WARNING);
    extract($args, EXTR_REFS);
    $return = include(TEMPLATE_DIR.'/'.$name.'.php');
    error_reporting($er);
    return $return;
}
?>

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PHP

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