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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 in the enterprise? Scary thought. by wan-fu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I do agree that all too often applications are rammed into PHP without too much forethought; however, I think PHP is already going in the right direction for enterprise level development. The object orientedness of the language is much improved since PHP3. They have the Smarty template engine which does a fairly good job of separating presentation from application. People should be encouraged to use it and I think as PHP apps get bigger, people will begin to realize the advantage to separating design logic from application logic. Most importantly, there are a variety of third-party developers creating frameworks such as the Horde framework or Blueshoes framework (I no affiliation with either). And that's great that there are such frameworks. It's not the job of the language developer to create the framework imho (e.g. CPAN does a great job supplementing Perl)