Future of PHP Revealed

Anonymous Coward writes "In an interview with linuxpower.org, the developers of PHP present hot facts on the future of PHP, the next major release PHP 4.0, the license change, and what window managers they use."
jimjag note: See the Apache section for info about the latest beta release of PHP 4.0.

Comments

Re:Perl/DBI vs PHP

[Get Behind the Mule]

Commenting as a long-time Perl coder who likes a Perl a lot, but who has recently discovered PHP and likes it, too:

DBI is database interface independent
PHP not

Bingo. This IMO is the biggest problem that needs to be solved with PHP. It supports a wide variety of databases with APIs that are very similar in function, but they're all different. We do a lot of work with MySQL and Oracle around here, and with Perl/DBI you can often go from one to the other with no changes at all (except the connection string). It couldn't possibly be easier.

Something like DBI could probably be done in PHP. It would be an enormous advantage.

Great Perl Module (DBI, CGI, IRC, FTP, ...)
Few library un PHP [sic]

That's not true. The standard distribution in PHP has far more libraries than I'll ever need. To be sure, it's not nearly as big as CPAN, but as you pointed out, Perl is more general purpose than PHP. And note that you don't need something like the CGI.pm module (an HTML-generating library) in PHP. You're programming right into the HTML file anyway, that's the whole point.