Posted by axlq on 04/03/07 22:10

In article <1175574132.067045.314570@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
K.J.Williams <lordwill@quik.com> wrote:
> so in every Java Script, there has to be a conditional statement
> which catches the web browsers type and use the best most
> procedures - this might make my work with PHP not very easy for
> web page generation.

Why not? PHP has an environment variable to tell you the client's user
agent string. You can then output whatever you want based on that.

> One crazy question is PHP derived from Perl , like C++ is derived
>from C?

PHP uses C++ syntax, but also makes use of some perl features such
as regular expression matching -- if you want them. To me, PHP
feels more like C++ without the strong variable typing constraints.

>I hope I made good choices since I was completely lost by the
>number of books on PHP that I could buy so I went with my best
>thoughts as I reviewed them and thats what I choose.

Personally I think you're buying too many books. The only thing I
ever needed for PHP was the online documentation at www.php.net.
The books are available for others to make money from you. Nothing
wrong with that, but if you already have a few programming languages
under your belt, you don't need yet another book for PHP, in my
opinion.

-A

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