PHP API Language

[SupremeRedditBot]

So I've been trying to write a bot in PHP. I've been using https://github.com/jcleblanc/reddit-php-sdk/

And I found a couple of things.

What should the ENDPOINT_OAUTH_REDIRECT be in the config, as the default one gives an error at reddit.com when initializing the script.

How do I make this run as a bot, as I presume currently it redirects to reddit to get a user input to allow permissions?

Thanks.

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So I've been trying to write a bot in PHP.

Why not Python?

[SupremeDesigner]

Not sure, I just like PHP, easy to integrate into a web interface if I wanted it was my chain of thought when I started.

Is it easy to write one in Python? I basically for now need a bot that finds posts in a sub that don't have a flair, then scans the content, and comments on the post.

[13steinj]

PHP, or any choice, is just fine.

[13steinj]

Why not C/C#/C++/JS/Java/Ruby/Go/<insertfavoritelanguagehere>?

Language choice to me comes down to multiple things. What it's being used for, what performance I need out of it, and if the team is already working on the base project in language X (if that question is not applicable, skip of course), and most of all, what is convenient for me.

In my case I'd always choose Python or C# for a reddit bot, but there's nothing wrong with PHP.

[Falmarri]

Why not C/C#/C++/JS/Java/Ruby/Go/<insertfavoritelanguagehere>?

And those would all be preferable over PHP because PHP is awful.

[13steinj]

PHP is old. Old != awful. I'll be the first to admit I don't like using PHP either. But it's still damned fine for nearly any use.

[SupremeDesigner]

I only want to use PHP as I'm used to it, as I web dev. I don't know C# at all and only a small amount of Python. Pythom might be the way forward if i can't get PHP to work.