Here is a good place to start. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.strings.php

this is nice.

   $ntimes = 4;
   $descrp = "I have use this function {$ntimes} this week";
   $descrp = 'I have use this function '.$ntimes. 'this week';
   

I have mainly used WW so I don't know much about ActiveVFP but ActiveVFP is COM and COM has a lot of overhead in it self. The big difference is PHP has a way forward VFP does not.

I just remembered. Thanks to the Facebook people, PHP can now be compiled and run as compiled code instead of an interpreter.

>Cool, I can respect that. Have you tried ActiveVFP (not the older harder crap). It is easy and I think they are trying to be more PHP like. Can you give me some examples of the PHP string handling capabilities that are better than VFP? I am genuinely interested in this. Thanks.
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>>Michael, I can't let this one go.
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>>I have been using PHP for about 6 months now ( I started using foxbase in 1988) and I can tell you that PHP is much simpler for web and has way more string handling capabilities than VFP. Don't get me wrong, I still like using VFP for client work but I would never go back to using if for web.