Archive for February, 2006

VBScript to PHP is friggin easy

February 28th, 2006

GEEK ALERT: So I spent a few minutes today translating my ASP album page into PHP. Can I just say that if you have the reference site and know Perl this shit is so damn easy? It really is. See for yourself:

ASP File-Directory Iteration
Set fso = Server.CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
Set objFolder = fso.GetFolder(Server.MapPath(“.”))
For Each i In objFolder.Subfolders
Next

PHP File-Directory Iteration
$dir = opendir(‘.’);
while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false) {}

Query Strings
ASP: request.querystring(“var”)
PHP: $_GET['var']

Year
ASP: year(now)
PHP: date(‘Y’)

Executing Script Name
ASP: Request.ServerVariables(“SCRIPT_NAME”)
PHP: $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']