Re: [PHP4BETA] Help craft PHP description

On Fri, 12 May 2000, R. P. Channing Rodgers, M.D. wrote: > How about: > > PHP is a simple but powerful cross-platform, general-purpose, open > source scripting language. It can be used stand-alone, but is > particularly well suited for Web development, and can be embedded > within HTML. Its syntax borrows from C, Java, and Perl. It has > commands providing for data manipulation, easy access to a number of > major databases, and important Internet protocols, and is extensible > via an API. It is widley used, and actively supported by a talented > and energetic international development and support team. Numerous > open source and commercial PHP-based application packages are > available. A couple of comments. I think "..syntax is similar to.." is better than "..syntax borrows from..". The latter makes us a little more independent. Also, mentioning that it can work under several diferent web servers might be good. -Andrei Computer, if you don't open that exit hatch this moment I shall zap straight off to your major data banks and reprogram you with a very large axe. -- Douglas Adams / The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy