Re: FN-FORUM: Suggestions please charset="Windows-1250"

date posted 30th January 2006 20:11

On Monday 30 January 2006 20:32, Dom Latter wrote:

> CPAN is analogous to the PEAR in the PHP world.
>
> I'm talking more about the built-in library, the stuff that's "just there"
> without you having to do anything. E.g. here's the stuff that's
> available for arrays *alone*:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php
>
> Got an array and want to randomise the order? It's just there:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shuffle.php

It is, but much as I love PHP, Perl has the edge on native code extensions,
which can also be built using CPAN - much like adding gd support after
installing perl. How easy is that in PHP?

Matt