On the Sticher.io site there's a new tutorial posted where Brendt shares some thoughts about domain driven design and splitting codebases to make them more maintainable and logically separated.

In this post we'll look at a different approach of structuring large code bases into separate domains. The name "domain" is derived from the popular paradigm DDD, or also: domain driven design.

While many concepts in this post are inspired by DDD principles, they will not follow every rule set by the paradigm. In our context, "domain" can also be named "module". A "domain" simply refers to a category of related stuff, that's it.

The post then starts with a definition of what a "domain" is and how it relates to functionality in an application (a Laravel app in this case). He gives an example of restructuring the code into "domains" of functionality rather than thinking about their types (enums, rules, etc). He provides a new proposed directory structure for these domains including folders for Actions, Exceptions, Rules, Status and ValueObjects. He then walks through several of these categories and gives a bit more detail about what's inside and some of the functionality those files might contain.

Damien Seguy has official published the PHP statistics for July 2008 to the Nexen.net website today. Here's a summary:

• PHP 5 reaches 40,63% of PHP market share
• PHP 5.2.6 usage is growing fast, about to take over PHP 5.2.5
• PHP 4.4.9 and 5.2.6 will threaten PHP 4.4.8's dominance in August 2008

You can find the evolution stats for this past month here and the full statistics here.

PHP just keeps growing and growing - popularity is back on the rise and DynamicWebPages.de has the statistics to prove it.

In breaking down the statistics for the period of December 2005 through January 2006, over 1.9 million domains are using PHP, and the number only continues to climb. In February, the upward trend continued and usage jumped up 1 million domains more. March, however, has only seen about 100,000 additional domains making the total 21,439,178. On the server side of things there's never much fluctuation and it still sits steady around the 1.3 million mark.

PHP usage took a hit in usage around the beginning of the year, but it's coming back quickly and will soon be back up to the 23 million domain usage soon.

PHP just keeps growing and growing - popularity is back on the rise and DynamicWebPages.de has the statistics to prove it.

In breaking down the statistics for the period of December 2005 through January 2006, over 1.9 million domains are using PHP, and the number only continues to climb. In February, the upward trend continued and usage jumped up 1 million domains more. March, however, has only seen about 100,000 additional domains making the total 21,439,178. On the server side of things there's never much fluctuation and it still sits steady around the 1.3 million mark.

PHP usage took a hit in usage around the beginning of the year, but it's coming back quickly and will soon be back up to the 23 million domain usage soon.