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I won't, because I will never again use PHP :) Oh, I just thought that maybe php.ini is another thing that's specific to the web... But I'm not sure, for examp

• fein 14y ago
  I use PHP every day, and kind of take pride in that. We get a lot of shit for this labor of love, but damn do I enjoy it. That being said, the PHP ini is a config file that defines some of PHP's runtime parameters and, in some cases, controls modules and drivers that have been installed for PHP. The closest thing I can think of comparing it to would be the JVM config. I use PHP for a crapton of scripting as well, namely scraping, which has nothing to do with PHP's web app capabilities as that all leverages curl.
• nir 14y ago
  The part where PHP files are essentially HTML files (ie you can start with a file consisting of "<b>hello world</b>" and add some code as you go) is where the made-for-web really shows. While obviously a bad practice, it also enables non-devs to organically learn the language in bits and pieces. Sometimes they move on to create hugely influential platforms like MediaWiki and Wordpress, sometimes they just build very hard to maintain websites. PHP in a nutshell.