For those tracking the progress of the PHP port I've got 5 scripts left on the front end. These all deal with adding/modifying posts but everything else on the front end has been ported. So, things are moving along quite nicely, although none of the scripts have been bug tested. That will be the fun part;).

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Scream
<A HREF="http://www.wcsoft.net" target="_new">http://www.wcsoft.net</A>

Great news to know. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/cool.gif" /> Maybe we can test the full fontend php version before the weekend. What a nice weekend.[img] /w3timages/icons/images/icons/tongue.gif [/img]

I like the PHP site as it loads very fast.

Scream, how have you found learning PHP from scratch? In your opinion did you find it easier to pick up than Perl?

Darren.
<A HREF="http://www.bullpen.com.au" target="_new">http://www.bullpen.com.au</A>

Because of my experience with PERL it was pretty easy. The logic of the language is pretty much the same. I will say this though I H A T E!!!!! regular expressions in PHP. Althought that could be because I have spent most of the day letting them kick my butt:). I think I finally got the hang of them now but they are alot different than PERL. Other than that one minor point, I really enjoy working with the language.

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Scream

Posted from the PHP Port Site (Post might be quirky)

Thanks Scream. I learnt more about Perl looking at your code than any book. Keep up the good work with your comment statements.

I meant to ask, even though the PHP version is still in development, is it possible to view one of the files, say newpost or editbasic for example?

Darren.
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Thanks Darren.
Actually you can download a current snapshot of the PHP code each day. It get's updated at 5:00 each morning. If you have a 5.1 system going you can setup the PHP code to use the same database. Just go into the registered users area and you will see a link at the bottom for the PHP code.
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Scream

Posted from the PHP Port Site (Post might be quirky)

Excellent. Thanks very much.

Darren.
<A HREF="http://www.bullpen.com.au" target="_new">http://www.bullpen.com.au</A>

PHP does process Perl Regular Expressions. You just hafta use the functions and stuff with it.

Great thing about PHP is it has built-in compatibility for PERL-type regexprs. Stuff like preg_match() and preg_replace() are excellent little utilities.

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Shalazar
<A HREF="http://www.charisma-carpenter.com" target="_new">http://www.charisma-carpenter.com</A>

LOLOL!!!! Regex is a lot different in PHP vs Perl. They redefined enough to JUST mess you up (example; == or eq)
Have noticed one thing though. If your running a server, and a lot of your code is in PHP, you should install Zend's optimizer. It's not a hard install, and it speeds things up quite a lot.

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