What is "PHP Code" and how is it used?

[kupcho 19]

First I need to tell you all that I'm one of the "older" generation. I'm not a computer programmer of any kind...I just like to play PC games and script some basic missions in ARMA3.

While looking around this forum, posting questions and reading others, I've seen a LOT of folks talking about "PHP Code". I've even had some people who are answering some of my questions bring it up, but...

I have NO IDEA what it is or how it's used. :confused:

Will somebody please tell me something (ANYTHING) about it.

Is there a place I can go to read up on it?

Is it something used in....an INIT field? The sqf document?

Really. I don't know a thing about it and I hate that fact.

It seems as though it's something I should have SOME kind of knowledge of, but I wouldn't know where to start.

Thanks to anyone willing to give an old dude some help.

[jshock 512]

It's simply a forum tag that we put around normal text/code to add some color differences in different commands/data types, it's absolutley unrelated to anything.

[killzone_kid 1326]

First I need to tell you all that I'm one of the "older" generation. I'm not a computer programmer of any kind...I just like to play PC games and script some basic missions in ARMA3.

While looking around this forum, posting questions and reading others, I've seen a LOT of folks talking about "PHP Code". I've even had some people who are answering some of my questions bring it up, but...

I have NO IDEA what it is or how it's used. :confused:

Will somebody please tell me something (ANYTHING) about it.

Is there a place I can go to read up on it?

Is it something used in....an INIT field? The sqf document?

Really. I don't know a thing about it and I hate that fact.

It seems as though it's something I should have SOME kind of knowledge of, but I wouldn't know where to start.

Thanks to anyone willing to give an old dude some help.

PHP code is a code highlighter for PHP, has nothing to do with SQF, we use it because it is better than have no highlighter at all ...and because Dwarden is lazy :)

[Larrow 2803]

...and because Dwarden is lazy :)

:D hehe

but yer wheres our forum SQF highlighter with code command linkage into the wiki ;) (see Unity3D forum they have it sorted)

example..

{
[url="https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/if"][color="#0000FF"]if[/color][/url] ( [color="#800080"]![/color][url="https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/alive"][color="#FF0000"]alive[/color][/url] [color="#FF8C00"]_x[/color] ) [url="https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/then"][color="#0000FF"]then[/color][/url] {
	[url="https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/hintSilent"][color="#FF0000"]hintSilent[/color][/url][url="https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/format"] [color="#FF0000"]format[/color][/url][ [color="#808080"]"His name was %1"[/color], [url="https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/name"][color="#FF0000"]name[/color][/url] [color="#FF8C00"]_x[/color] ];
}; 
}[url="https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/forEach"][color="#0000FF"]forEach[/color][/url] ( [url="https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/units"][color="#FF0000"]units[/color][/url] [url="https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/player"][color="#FF8C00"]player[/color][/url] );

Edited December 29, 2014 by Larrow

[kupcho 19]

Well alrighty then...

And I thought it was some kind of arcane programming stuff.

Thanks for the info m'frends.