Porting PHP to JavaScript

Other than from a hobby point of view, what is the need?

People who’s primary language is PHP and are most familiar with all of it’s wonderful functions, often really know how to build something in PHP, but sometimes the Javascript functions just aren’t there. In those cases it just saves a little time otherwise spent reinventing (or searching for) the wheel.

And though indeed it is a hobby, functions like base64_decode, wordwrap, stripslashes, ucwords, md5, may all come in quite useful when developing applications with a lot of client/server interaction. Because a lot of server side intelligence can be ported to client side more easily, and with high traffic sites, that will definitely save you some volume & hardware.

But hey, nobody is ordering anybody to contribute or even use it, but my guess is plenty developers will enjoy the final result of this project.

Well, I will say it’s an interesting experiment and I by no means am advocating for the original author to stop. But for production value I really do not see a need. Passing off huge chunks of logic to the client is highly debatable for a lot of reasons for one. Second, with a solid background in PHP development (or any language for that matter), scripting JavaScript isn’t too terribly difficult. Any PHP developer who can’t handle JavaScript probably isn’t much of developer to begin with. Like any serious developer, you should have core programming concepts down already. After that, picking up new languages is a matter of getting used to syntax and a little reading.

http://hexmen.com/blog/2007/03/printf-sprintf/

yes, javascript is not that hard to learn. but being an avid php devloper , there are certain functions that you use so often that there is a hole when you program in other languages. i, for one, cannot live without the explode/implode function. so, i just go to this guy’s site, and it is there!

thanks for the work. i wrote a short html_entity_decode() function but i cant find where to contribute.

Not the best example because explode & implode can easily be replaced by split and join. But what about functions like javascript md5, require_once, array_unshift, number_format, etc. Real handy to have clientside in my opinion.

"The bad news is that the JavaScript code doesn’t support namespaces."

Not anymore. It’s just been announced that from now on PHP.JS will support namespaces.
http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/phpjs_namespaced/

Just wanted to share that with you!

We’ve moved to a new home. Be sure to checkout 400+ PHP functions ported to JavaScript
http://phpjs.org/functions/index