The P* Web Programming Language

As its name suggests, the P* Web Programming Language is an open source and freely distributed command-line software project that provides a programming language for developing web-based applications and websites. It can also be used directly by a web server via the included Apache module.

Features at a glance

The P* Web Programming Language is capable of handling templates and database queries, features a HTML template engine, object-oriented code structuring, a regular expression (regexp) engine, as well as AJAX and JSON output with automatic ID-tag recognition. It is compatible with all distributions of GNU/Linux, supporting 32 and 64-bit computer platforms.

With its specially crafted syntax, the P* Web Programming Language can easily make SQL prepared statements. The software also features a typed language that provides constant conversion between primitives, file I/O support with linewise editing, and a fast Apache web server module.

Getting started with P* Web Programming Language

Before attempting to install the the P* Web Programming Language, you will have to install the Mimetic libraries, which can be found at http://www.codesink.org/mimetic_mime_library.html, as well as the apxs binary, which is installed by Apache.

Installing the P* Web Programming Language project is quite easy, as you must download and save the latest release on your Home directory, use an archive manager utility to extract its contents, open a terminal emulator program and move to the location of the extracted archive files (e.g. cd /home/softoware/P-star).

Run the ‘./configure && make’ command to configure and compile the software. After a successful compilation process, run either of the ‘make install’ or ‘sudo make install’ commands, depending if you’re root or a privileged user, to install P* Web Programming Language system wide.

What is new in this release:

• This version adds support for the C-style for-loop.
• P* now also supports multidimensional arrays.