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5 things you may not know about PHP

PHP is one of the dominant web languages in use today. If you do any web design work you probably have at least a passing knowledge of PHP. Heck, even if you don’t do any web design you’ve probably noticed web pages ending in .php.

But here are 5 things you may not have known about PHP. If you’ve been working in PHP for a while you probably already know all these, but they’re still there to look at.

Mounting an external drive to an NTFS folder, and not being able to delete subfolders

Last weekend I bought a 250gb external usb Lifebook to act as a backup drive to replace a crashed drive in my file server. Since my computer was already filling up with drive letters thanks to a network, another external drive, and a media card reader that takes 4 drive letters I decided to map the drive to an empty folder rather than assign it a letter.