Comments on: PHP more popular than Java? Say it ain’t so!

By: Marc Fearby

Marc Fearby — Thu, 25 May 2006 22:28:15 +0000

A gift from the gods (well, a friend in Adelaide, actually) in my ICQ this morning. This guy describes the utter crappiness of PHP better than I ever could:

http://www.bitstorm.org/edwin/en/php/

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:30:22 +0000

Too true, I’d have to say PHP is the ugly duckling that only gets to exhibit grace and elegance after much struggle and woe. PHP is expanding due to network effects – unlike mod_perl, mod_php doesn’t go so deep into the guts of apache and therefore more hosting providers offer it. And unlike Perl/Python/Ruby/Java it was always aimed at templating, so there is a single obvious way to create templates in PHP – which is where most web programs start out. And unlike Java, PHP won’t eat all your server memory if there are 20 virtuals on your server with their own little webapps.
So I think that while there are many, many things wrong with PHP, it is gaining market and mind share for practical reasons. Better use Perl for the webapp and if you want PHP templates, use PHP::Interpreter from the CPAN.

By: domain-me-bitch...

domain-me-bitch... — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:37:33 +0000

Fo shizzle my nizzle, iza pizzle this crizzle even exizzle…

By: monkey

monkey — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 23:57:55 +0000

Um, no. My friend, WordPress is a hunk of crap. If you think it’s well-written, you’ve got a lot of learning to do.

By: Rimu

Rimu — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:12:07 +0000

I agree

PHP is great for whipping up a small script for a web SITE, but for web APPLICATIONS i’d go with the poke from a stick too.