What is the difference between PHP and Visual Basic?

Answer 1

There is no difference between Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual Basic. We only remove the word 'Microsoft' to save our time and to tell others that what is the name of the company of Visual Basic.

Answer 2

There is no difference. Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual Basic are the same thing. Visual Basic is a language that was developed by Microsoft.

There is however a difference between Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET (Now known as just Visual Basic and VB.Net). VB.Net is basically Visual Basic, the only difference is that VB.Net supports the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Answer 3

The two languages have hardly any similarities. PHP is based on Perl, which is based on C and C++. Resemblance to the syntax of other C languages is strong, with the primary differences being the dot . for concatenation, and the double-colon :: and hyphen-arrow -> borrowed from C++ for static and instance member-accesses, respectively. As in practically all other languages, the percent sign % is the modulus operator. Variables don't need to be declared, but they must start with the dollar sign $. PHP convention says to separate words within identifiers with underscores rather than capitalizing the first letter of each one.

Visual Basic uses the syntax of BASIC (influenced by ancient languages like FORTRAN and ALGOL) while adhering to most of Java's fundamental design concepts. (Java is itself a rework of C++.) It looks vaguely like languages with C syntax, but only because C is indirectly based on ALGOL and FORTRAN. The ampersand & is the concatenation operator and Mod finds remainders, while Java's dot . is carried over for member access. Variables are declared with "Dim identifier As Type" (parameters use ByVal instead of Dim), but the identifiers conventionally contain short type specifiers as in "strLastName" and "intCount".

PHP is an interpreted scripting language almost always run on a server for the primary purpose of responding to clients. Visual Basic is compiled to Microsoft's (semi-)portable .NET bytecode and, like most other "Visual" languages and vanilla Java, normally used for desktop and mobile applications.

Ordinary PHP instructions can be placed outside of all other syntax elements, in the "global scope," and will be run immediately in that case. "class" and "function" are keywords for declaring the respective constructs, and can both also be placed in the global scope.

Visual Basic requires that all code be placed in "procedures" which only belong in classes. A class's declaration can be added to from separate files without any additional syntax. There are various types of procedures which have different properties such as a return value or lack thereof.

PHP sets a block of code off by surrounding it with curly brackets {}. Visual Basic uses End followed by another keyword such as Sub or While to do the same. PHP has the break statement available for exiting switches and loops, while Visual Basic sticks with the old label: and GoTo instead.

Other than the facts that both languages are imperative and statements are constructed in the same basic way, PHP and VIsual Basic are about as similar as Lisp and C - i.e., not at all.

Answer 4

The original BASIC of the 60s and 70s and the derivatives thereof which were popular in the 80s are fundamentally different than the current version of Visual Basic .NET. The older languages were designed for computers far less capable the today's machines, and as such, they are primitive, limited, and barely structured, a striking contrast with Visual Basic .NET which is a modern, fully-featured, objected-oriented language with generics, operator overloading, lambda expressions and more. The hallmark of BASIC-family languages: extensive use of English keywords, is about the only remaining similarity.

Answer 5

They're two entirely different programming languages, so it's rather like asking what's the difference between French and English (possibly more like asking what's the difference between German and English).

One difference is that Visual Basic is a product of a specific company - Microsoft - while there are any number of different C compilers produced by different people and companies, most of which more or less adhere to the standards as published in a book (The C Programming Language, by Kernighan and Ritchie), with "more or less" covering a pretty wide territory.

Answer 6

c is not so look and feel, flexiable vb is rich in GUI, flexiable

Answer 7

Well it is to do with the 'visual' part of the software. Basic was originaly created for bigger computer. However, visual basic inclludes a simple interface where you can draw then code.