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Jacob Santos' Blog: On PHP 5 Adoption
by Chris Cornutt July 17, 2007 @ 11:16:00
Jacob Santos makes some of his own comments about the recent PHP5 adoption talk that's been going around in the PHP community (spurred on by comments made by Matt of the Wordpress project).
Matt brings up some good points. What might be limiting PHP 5 adoption, could just be the lack of interest in developers. [...] Up until reading his rant, I've lived in a box where everyone I've talked to, used and enjoyed PHP 5 and its vast extensions. Developing in PHP 5.0 was uneventfully, but you learn to appreciate PHP 5 with the core inclusion of PDO with PHP 5.1. PHP 5 is not without annoyances. In the core developers attempts to "better" the language, they made changes that broke code that previously worked.
He looks at a few of the items for debate surrounding the move from PHP4 to PHP5 including the extensions that come bundled with PHP5, solving the register_globals issue, and a brief mention of the Standard PHP Library.
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Gregory Szorc's Blog: So Many Untapped PHP Features
by Chris Cornutt May 01, 2007 @ 13:26:00
Gregory Szorc has posted his look at the "many untapped features" that PHP has to offer that the masses can tend to overlook when developing applications, specifically when dealing with object versus procedural programming.
The more interesting topic is why these applications have not made the jump to utilize PHP 5's features. Others have speculated, and I tend to agree, that application developers are worried that PHP 5 adoption is too low and requiring its use will turn away users. Now, considering the improvements of the PHP 5 engine, both from a performance and security standpoint, there is no reason in my mind why a sane system administrator wouldn't be running PHP 5.2.1 (most recent at the time of this entry).
He looks at applications like WordPress, Drupal and Gallery and note how they haven't made the move to true PHP5-style code. Adoption has a lot to do with this, but he brings up the point of the article - that developers are "ignorant" to what they're missing.
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Nexen.net: PHP statistics for March 2007
by Chris Cornutt April 04, 2007 @ 12:12:00
Nexen.net has posted the latest PHP statistics for the month of March 2007 today including the PHP version distribution, the usage of different versions of PHP, PHP 5 adoption by country, and much more.
Here are the PHP stats for March 2007. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 10.1 millions servers hosted on 2.3 millions IP were surveyed during December, and 22.8 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered.
Also included are the evolution statistics comparing PHP to two other languages - ASP amd Masque. Interestingly enough, the growth pattern almost directly matches the inverse of the ASP results.
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Dotvoid.com: Loosing market share with PHP 4
by Chris Cornutt February 13, 2007 @ 07:56:00
From Dotvoid.com, there's a new posting talking about the continued use of PHP4 by developers and hosting companies and how it's effecting the community as a whole.
It is true that the PHP 5 uptake has been slow. Many internet service providers as well as many developers are reluctant to switch. This is probably, as others have stated, a circular dependency.
As ISP:s are reluctant to upgrade the popular open source projects are hesitant to upgrade. I still think the wrong people are worried. Still PHP 5 is increasing it's share and finally the day will come when version 4 will be considered legacy. Hopefully before PHP 6 is here but not necessarily.
He continues on, talking about what PHP5 is really about (it's not just the objects!) and things that can help make it an easier sell to those still lagging in a PHP4 world - like the Zend Framework.
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