Posts Tagged "PHP"

Is PHP a scripting language or a high-level language?

Is PHP a scripting language or a high-level language?

I tend to get a few questions from people on whether PHP is a scripting language or a proper high level language. The term High Level Language refers to the higher level of abstraction from machine language. Rather than dealing with registers, memory addresses and call stacks, high-level languages deal with variables, arrays and complex arithmetic or boolean expressions. In addition, they have...

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Setting up Eclipse for PHP

The pursue of a PHP editor is not a easy one. Over the years, I have tried a variety of editors. Some of them were generic text editors, like Notepad, VI, Pico, Textpad, KEDit, XCode and some dedicated PHP editors like Zend and PHPEdit. I needed a PHP editor that I could use on my Mac mini and my PC computer at work. I couldn't find one that was meeting all my needs. Zend editor is a good choice but it is expensive and slow. Hence, PHPEclipse.

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