Archive for August 4th, 2006
PHP Developer - August 4th, 2006
Damien Seguy has submitted information about the latest PHP statistics for this month for July 2006:
Here are the PHP stats for July 2006. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 15 millions servers were surveyed during May, and 8,1 millions were used for stats: domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP or domain parkings were not considered.
In brief :
- PHP 5 keep on growing, but slower
- PHP 5.1.4 is now the most popular PHP 5 version
- PHP 4.4.2 is bigger than ever
- New : PHP adoption by governements around the world
For each of the stats, there’s a nice graph of various types to show the distribution and information (such as maps for the spread of PHP’s market share all across the world).
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PHP Developer - August 4th, 2006
In his latest blog entry, Jacob Santos looks at objects and his seeming faciation with every little thing they do - specifically the Array objects.
I suppose I’m fixated on objects, but damn it, they are awesome. Recently, I’ve been thinking of creating a framework that takes array and file functions and creates a class wrapper around them. It would have been nice if PHP offered an object for handling Arrays and Files. SPL does manage some sorting for arrays, but I would like to fully manage arrays through the internal Array methods.
He dives deeper into the Array objects, looking at how to use them, appending them to each other, how much overhead making the object causes (testing), and the results of those tests.
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PHP Developer - August 4th, 2006
As PHP Magazine notes today, PHP has come in fifth (again) on the TIOBE Programming Community index.
The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors.
The popular search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo! are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TPC index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
Those higher on the list are Java, C, Visual Basic, and C++, though C++ seems to be fading and Visual Basic growing by leaps and bounds. In the long term trends they record, PHP is showing a rising trend, quite a bit up from even just February of this year.
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PHP Developer - August 4th, 2006
Christian Stocker shares a few job openings in this new post today:
All of the openings are there in the Switzerland area (.ch at least).
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PHP Developer - August 4th, 2006
Joshua Eichorn mentions today about the “digital shortcut” created for his upcoming book “Understanding Ajax” from Prentice Hall.
A chapter from my book, Understanding AJAX has been made available as a digital shortcut. This chapter covers the different ways you can use the data you transfer using XMLHttpRequest.
Document centric approaches based on HTML and XML are described as well as various RPC approaches are shown.
The shortcut focuses on consuming data sent back in an XML or JSON format (and costs $9.99 USD). Joshua notes that he, personally, tends more towards “JSON based RPC approaches or HTML document based approaches” for his communication method. He also mentions client-side XSLT as an alternative to having to parse through and style the large amounts of data returned.
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