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PHP5 Co-Creator Interview

Posted by timothy on from the are-you-going-to-disneyland dept.

mandozcode writes "I came across an interesting interview with PHP co-creator Zeev Suraski at Open Enterprise Trends on the latest upgrades for PHP5's First Release Candidate (just released a week or so ago). Sounds like lots of improvements to help make it in the enterprise, including better bundled support for SQLlite and XML. Also encouraging, looks like Zend is getting more millions in VC investment."

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  1. Re:PHP's broken security model by Gislobber · · Score: 3, Informative

    I totally agree with your agrument. A friend and I have been searching for a resolution to this for quite a while.

    Then the other day, I think he may have found our (temporary) savior.

    This module is in development, but looks to be almost *exactly* what we are looking for.
    http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/perchil d.html

  2. Re:Php in the enterprise? Scary thought. by JimDabell · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since its inception, PHP has gone from a simple website templating language and form processing tool, to a semi-OO scripting language hacked onto a bunch of C extensions, and now they expect to become a fully OO, enterprise-ready language?

    Scary.

    Scary? Projects evolve. Apache wasn't always "enterprise ready". FreeBSD wasn't always "enterprise ready". Just because something started out as a pet project rather than at a lab, that doesn't mean it's automatically "tainted" and cannot ever be useful to big businesses.

    Libraries of code written in a templating language!

    PHP may have started out as a templating language, but it is a general purpose scripting language now. You can even write GUI applications with it.

    And what is it with all those PHP developers who seem to think a "class" is another term for "static function library"? The concept of using object types is foreign to thse people - they'd rather make huge monster arrays.

    So the language is judged on its worst practitioners? If that is the case, then, judging all languages equally, we'd better just give up this programming lark and hide under a rock.

    Rewrites of crufty code are not exclusive to PHP, you know. Neither are bad developers.