nothing to doo

[308holes]

i have nothing to do so i just want to say

$myvar = "Hello World!";
for ($i=0; $i<10; $i++) {
echo $myvar."\n";
}

 

[lucifer]

$myvar = "Hello World!";
for ($i=0; $i<10; $i++) {
echo "$myvar<br>";
}

looks nicer

 

[308holes]

thanks

 

[meow]

:biggrin2:

 

[vedette]

I don't know anything about php.
Looks confusing.

 

[Bruce]

Less confusing than perl.

 

[308holes]

i dont know php i know perl better than php

 

[Dusty]

i dont know php i know perl better than php

I do know both and I don't find one to be any harder or easier than the other. They're both more or less the same (PHP was based almost exclusively on Perl, you know).

Less confusing than perl.

How is it less confusing than Perl? People are always making blanket statements about PHP ("it's less confusing", "it's less complicated", "it's easier to learn", "it's faster to write", etc...) without ever backing them up with any reasons. Here's the same script in Perl:

$myvar="Hello World!";
for ($i=0;$i<10;$i++) {
print $myvar."\n";
}

Apart from substituting "print" for "echo", it's the same exact thing. In fact, you can use "print" in PHP. If you did, then the two scripts are identical! How is the Perl version more confusing than the PHP?

echo "$myvar<br>";

You can't just change \n to <br>, suppose we're not running this from the web? You'd get some messy output, "Hello World!<br>Hello World!<br>Hello World!<br>Hello World!<br>......"

 

[bigperm]

THANK YOU DUSTY!

I have always wondered why people say that stuff about php/perl... when it look very similar to me.

So what does this look like in ASP?, C/C++?, Python?, Javascript?, Qbasic? Can it be done in coldfusion?

 

[Dusty]

I have always wondered why people say that stuff about php/perl... when it look very similar to me.

My theory is that PHP is the new "in-language" and people just feel compelled to praise it.

So what does this look like in ASP?, C/C++?, Python?, Javascript?, Qbasic? Can it be done in coldfusion?

I don't know all these languages, so some of these are just educated guesses:

ASP:

myvar="Hello World!"
For i=1 to 10 step 1
response.write myvar & "\n"
Next

C++

string myvar="Hello World!";
for(i=1; i<10; i++){
cout << myvar << endl;
}

Python

myvar="Hello World!"
for i in range(9):
     print myvar,"\n"

JavaScript

var myvar="Hello World!";
for (i=1; i<10; i++){
document.writeln(myvar);
}

QBasic

dim myvar$ as string
myvar$="Hello World!"
for i = 1 to 10
print myvar$
next i

ColdFusion

<cfset myvar="Hello World!">
<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="10">
<cdoutput>
#myvar#
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>

 

[308holes]

COOl i knew the JavaScript and C/C++ thanks for the others

JAVA

class helloworld
{
        public static void main( String[] arguments )
        {
                System.out.println( "Hello World" );
                }
}

 

[roblev]

PHP rokz!

 

[niv]

ColdFusion/ASP < PHP < Perl
BASIC < ANSI C/C++ < Assembly

 

[Dusty]

<cdoutput>

Oops, that should of course be <cfoutput>.