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PHP vs. Python: How to Pick the Right Option for Your Web App

Zend

Get an overview of PHP vs. Python from our expert, including comparisons on performance, security, benefits, and use cases.

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CodeSOD: To Tell the Truth

The Daily WTF

So many languages eschew "truth" for "truthiness" Today, we're looking at PHP's approach. PHP automatically coerces types to a boolean with some fairly simple rules: the boolean false is false the integer 0 is false, as is the float 0.0 In pure PHP, anything non-zero is true, but here only 1 is true.

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Simple Example of MySQL Date Comparison

Php,Mysql,Jquery Tutorial And Interview Question

This tutorial helps to understand MySQL Date Comparison with examples. We’ll go through working with dates in date comparison. MySQL offers a rich set of functions and operators to handle date and time data.

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Why is Laravel Framework an excellent choice for PHP web development?

Openxcell

One of the widely used web development languages is PHP, and Laravel is rated as being superior to other PHP web frameworks. This is due to the Laravel PHP Framework’s powerful capabilities and development tools, which makes it possible to create web applications quickly. W3Tech reports that 78.9%

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CodeSOD: Sorts of Dates

The Daily WTF

But then we run that through strcmp , which converts the integer back into a string, so we can do a string comparison on it. Unrelated to this code, but a PHP weirdness, we pass the callable cmp as a string to the usort function to apply a sort.

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CodeSOD: Underscoring the Importance of Good Naming

The Daily WTF

Martin 's team had a problem in PHP. Being PHP, the empty function also doesn't check for empty strings, it checks for strings that can coerce to false (which includes the empty string, but also includes '0' ). See, the is_null function is, well, checking for nulls. It isn't checking for empty strings.

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Introduction to Perceptual Hashes: Measuring Similarity

Apiumhub

While formats like PNG are lossless, resizing images will also change their content, preventing direct comparisons. pHashes allows the comparison of two images by looking at the number of different bits between the input and the image it is being compared against. Implementation in PHP. Reverse image search engine. Example #2.