This is a first PHP Revision example

<?php

/* Shows far too many different features in one short piece of code
for its own good but - never mind - it's illustrative! */

/*

- PHP is an open source general-purpose server-side scripting language
        originally designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages.
- It can also be run in other environments such as standalone though
        originator Rasmus Lerdorf says the priority on features is for web use.

- PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Pages" and ran on "A Patchy Server",
        but who's going to commit his business to products with such names?
- PHP is now the PHP Hypertext Protocol, usually running under the Apache
        httpd server.

* Key attributes:

- operator and operand based language
- ; separate statements and { to } blocks of code (like C)
- dynamic variable typing and memory allocation (unlike C)

- variable names start with a sigil (a $ character) to say "this is a variable"
- Comments start with # or // to end of line, or /* to *_/
- Code runs within <?php to ?> tags - outside that, code is echoed to output
- classic while, if and for statements, assignments, tests, etc

*/

$people = 11;
$share = 10000.0;

# "Classic" basic coding

$k = 1;
while ($k <= $people) {
        $each = $share / $k;
        print ("With $k people, each would get $each\n");
        $k = $k + 1;
}

# With considerable improvement!

$result = "\n";
for ($k=1; $k<= $people; $k++) {
        $each = $share / $k;
        if ($k == 1) {
                $theyword = "he/she";
        } else {
                $theyword = "each";
        }
        $pword = ($k != 1) ? "people" : "person";
        $result .= sprintf("With %-2d $pword, %6s would get %08.2f\n",$k,$theyword,$each);
}
print $result;

// and as webcontent!

$html = "\n<table>\n";
$html .= "<tr><th>people</th><th>each gets</th></tr>\n";
foreach (range(1,$people) as $k) {
        $html .= "<tr>";
        $html .= "<td>$k</td>";
        $each = $share / $k;
        $html .= "<td>".sprintf("%.2f",$each)."</td>";
        $html .= "</tr>\n";
        }
$html .= "</table>\n";
print $html;

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London");

?>

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<?php /* Sample output

wizard:examples graham$ php one.php
This is a first PHP Revision example

With 1 people, each would get 10000
With 2 people, each would get 5000
With 3 people, each would get 3333.3333333333
With 4 people, each would get 2500
With 5 people, each would get 2000
With 6 people, each would get 1666.6666666667
With 7 people, each would get 1428.5714285714
With 8 people, each would get 1250
With 9 people, each would get 1111.1111111111
With 10 people, each would get 1000
With 11 people, each would get 909.09090909091

With 1 person, he/she would get 10000.00
With 2 people, each would get 05000.00
With 3 people, each would get 03333.33
With 4 people, each would get 02500.00
With 5 people, each would get 02000.00
With 6 people, each would get 01666.67
With 7 people, each would get 01428.57
With 8 people, each would get 01250.00
With 9 people, each would get 01111.11
With 10 people, each would get 01000.00
With 11 people, each would get 00909.09

<table>
<tr><th>people</th><th>each gets</th></tr>
<tr><td>1</td><td>10000.00</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>5000.00</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>3333.33</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>2500.00</td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>2000.00</td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>1666.67</td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>1428.57</td></tr>
<tr><td>8</td><td>1250.00</td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td><td>1111.11</td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>1000.00</td></tr>
<tr><td>11</td><td>909.09</td></tr>
</table>

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