This session was presented by Christof Wollenhaupt at Southwest Fox 2023 (https://swfox.net)
FoxPro is a powerful language that supports ample of business use cases. Requirements are changing, standard are evolving, expectations are increasing... The lack of tool chains, client libraries, or open source solutions sometimes disqualifies FoxPro as the most efficient solution.
There are plenty of languages available to choose from. This session presents one of them. PHP is a mature language that evolved over decades. The language has seen the rise and fall of major browsers, internet technologies, companies, standards, and more. Throughout all these times the language kept changing, but remained largely backward compatible. It's not the top pick of young developers, but has developed a stable fellowship.
Learning a new language is easier if you can connect new information with something you already know. In this session, we look at various language concepts in PHP and how they differ from Visual FoxPro. We dig into how you would things in PHP that you know how to do in FoxPro. We also cover false friends: some things in PHP look dangerously similar to VFP, but are in fact completely different. We learn about includes, scope, classes, arrays, types, object orientation, anonymous functions, libraries and extensions, tooling and more....
