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Matthew Turland's Blog: PHP, MySQL, and Oracle: An Odd Triangle

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:04:30 -0500

A little while back Matthew Turland posted an interesting item to has blog talking about what he calls the "odd triangle" of PHP, MySQL and Oracle.

In [an article from Maggie Nelson in a blog entry], she remarks on the article being MySQL-oriented and how limited MySQL explain plan support is compared to Oracle. I've had some thoughts in my head for a while that are related to these points, so I finally decided to, knock on wood, put pen to paper.

Matthew talks about things he agrees with (Oracle over MySQL when it comes to hierarchal data and set operators) and some of the things that can make Oracle, with all its power, fall by the wayside. This includes its licensing, the administration costs and some of the recent developments between Sun and MySQL.

International PHP Magzine: Poll Question: Which is the Most Powerful PHP Tool?

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:36:00 -0600

The International PHP Magazine has posted the results of their latest poll this week. This time they asked visitors to the site which of the choices they considered the most powerful bit in PHP.

Options included VS.php, the mysql wrapper library, and the Crimson editor but only one cam out on top - the Smarty Template Engine. Following up with a close second was the response of "None" (meaning, I assume, that the person's choice wasn't on the list.

Be sure to head over and vote in this week's poll that asks which of the options is a major strength that the Symfony framework has over some of the competition.

Chris Shiflett's Blog: PHP and Scalability (Again)

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:46:50 -0500

On his blog today, Chris Shiflett an article mentioned in this previous post from the O'Reilly ONLamp.com site about PHP and scalability.

There's an interesting blog entry on O'Reilly's web site discussing Digg's PHP Scalability and Performance. As part of his research, the author (Brian Fioca, a Java developer) interviewed Owen Byrne, cofounder and Senior Software Engineer at Digg, and built his own PHP application, Jobby.

Chris also points out some of the interesting comments made in the entry, including mentions of Digg's stats and some great comments testifying to the light, powerful nature of PHP.

Community News: CodeIgniter - A Simple, Open Source Web App Framework

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:56:13 -0600

With another entry into the "PHP frameworks" category comes CodeIgniter, an "Open Source Web Application Framework that makes writing kick-ass PHP programs simple as apple pie".

Designed to enable, not overwhelm, Code Igniter is a powerful PHP/MySQL framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.

If you're a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you're tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks that require rocket science to understand, Code Igniter might just be the right tool for you.

They've released a beta (version 1.0) for public consumption, and it looks like it has promise. It has simplicity at its core, and makes it simple to build up useful apps quickly. Be sure to check out the videos of it in action...