Over on Dynamically Typed today, there's yet another "guest blogger" in place of Harry with a new posting concerning a programming jump from ASP to PHP.

Over the past week or so I've been assisting a friend of mine redevelop one of his ASP sites in PHP (with MySQL). He knows ASP quite well but has never touched PHP before.

Having had bad experiences with language conversion tools I was reluctant to recommend one to him. I instead pointed him to the PHP manual and the wonderful archive of information at SitePoint.com. Harry also mentioned a syntax cross reference some time last year.

The post only really shows some of the (very) simple tips that he gave his friend, things like: "Incrementing a number is easy using the ++ expression" and "Use the explode() function to split a string by a string". Nothing he couldn't have gotten from a PHP manual in a few minutes. It seems like there should be a guide out there for these two powerful web languages comparing how to do the same things in each. (Yeah, it's a lot of work, but if there were contributors and all, it would cut that down...)