Archive for January 12th, 2008

Deasil.com: Lessons to be learned from PHP

PHP Developer - January 12th, 2008

In a new post to the blog at deasil.com, they talk about some of the lessons they see that can be learned from PHP and how it works/is packaged up.

PHP, though, came along with a breakthrough idea - mod_php was an everything in one install. Unlike mod_perl, mod_php gave you a programming language, templating language and extension all in one.

He advocates the PHP language developer’s decisions to include everything into the core of the language which (while maybe not the best of decisions) has made PHP into one of the most practical development languages and has helped to make it one of the most popular and widely used languages on the web.

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Ian Bicking’s Blog: What PHP Deployment Gets Right

PHP Developer - January 12th, 2008

On his blog, Ian Bicking has posted some of his thoughts on a positive look at PHP - what he thinks PHP has done right.

With the recent talk on the blogosphere about deployment (and for Django, and lots of other posts too), people are thinking about PHP a bit more analytically. I think people mostly get it wrong.

He points out that PHP, in essence, is a CGI-style execution and, in being so, makes it more flexible. Both sides, web and command line, can work with the language equally well. He also mentions the developer/administrator split he sees in PHP’s structure and how the language facilitates it.

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