XS Labs

PHP lets you concentrate on the most important part of software development: the problem itself. If you manage to put together hig-level APIs that do most of the work for you, then it’s easy as this.

The previous function GetMatchDuration() would be implemented without this library somewhat like this:

$SQL = ‘SELECT MINUTE(MatchEnds – MatchStarts) FROM matches WHERE MatchID = ‘.mysql_escape_string($MatchID);

if(!($Query = mysql_query($SQL)))

return false;

if(!($Row = mysql_fetch_row($Query)))

return false;

return $Row[0];

Quite a lot prettier in the picture, huh?

PHP effin’ rocks.