Re: PHP is a Bloated Kludge, discuss!

Exelent, as I said I was playing devels advicate, I like PHP a lot, I am trying to get someone else to use it to and they came up with this stuff. > if(condition) include 'file'; Is exactly what I was looking for. As 'if () {}' loaded, or at least parsed things I did'nt think another form of if would be different ( RFM-;) ). Maybe I should stop developing for a while and have a good wade through the manual. Its so easy to do stuff in PHP it's easy to get lazy! Thanks, Ben Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@php.net> on 04/10/2001 18:21:28 To: <Ben.Edwards@chase.com> cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP is a Bloated Kludge, discuss! > PHP on the other hand seems to load in ALL the code that MAY be run. i.e. > an include brings things in which are inside an if, even if the if equates > to false. That's not true. if(condition) include 'file'; That will only include the file if the condition is true. Very easy to verify for yourself. So a bunch of your points related to this are void. > Then there is the way database connectivity is handled. > > There are a load of functions (again in the core language) with there NAMES > containing the name of the database you are connecting to. > > For example all MySQL functions are mysql_something and I guess all oracle > ones are oracle_something. This would only be a minor inconvenience > because wrapper functions can be written but from what I can gather > different databases have different functionality available. There is both a C-level abstraction layer called dbx and a user-space one in PEAR. Plus a number of others. So again, this makes your next points void. > Got a nast feeling that ASP (spit) does something like this. As does PHP if you had bothered to look. -Rasmus