[UPHPU] Rails vs PHP

[John David Anderson]

On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Joshua Simpson wrote:

> On 3/26/07, Roberto Mello <rmello at fslc.usu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Can you give us some examples of functionality that is PHP but not in
>> other languages? 'cause I don't see this at all.
>
>
> Obviously, it's not possible.  And I like to quote Python, so I  
> will here.
> urllib, and urllib2

http://php.net/fopen (you can do "fopen("http://...");
http://php.net/curl

> and BeautifulSoup, and HTMLParser, all offer far more
> possibilities than PHP, and I don't think anyone can argue that  
> (woe to
> those who do!).

http://php.net/tidy-get-html

Are these comparable?

> Well, this is why I compare PHP to other language's frameworks;   
> all PHP
> offers is a  simple, function derivative focus  on the web, while  
> Ruby on
> Rails offers a complete package ( as much as I may dislike Ruby  
> itself ),
> and the various Python frameworks do the same.

PHP isn't just for web development. First example that comes to mind  
is PHP-GTK, but there are process control functions and other stuff  
in there, too. I also use PHP scripts for most sysadmin tasks.

-- John