Today marks the 20th anniversary of the language we all know and love (or love to hate) - PHP. Rasmus Lerdorf started the language to "scratch an itch" he needed to make a more dynamic web site. It's grown over the last twenty years into one of the most popular web programming languages. Several members of the PHP community have posted some of their own thoughts about the event:

• Joe Watkins
• Cal Evans
• Chris Hartjes
• Stephan Hochdorfer
• Pascal Martin
• Ben Ramsey
• Davey Shafik
• Anderson Casimiro
• Mark Railton
• AWS PHP SDK Blog
• Amanda Folson
• Michelangelo van Dam
• Anderson Casimiro
• Chris Tankersley
• Shameer C
• Tudor Barbu
• Erika Heidi
• Matthew Weier O'Phinney
• David Carr
• Rafael Dohms
• Derick Rethans
• Wim Godden
• Christian Wenz
• Oscar Merida
• Patrick Stephan
• Rob Allen
• Matthew Setter
• Matt Raines
• Justin Carmony
• Sherif Ramadan
• thePHP.cc
• Laravel News
• Ilia Alshanetsky
• Jordi Boggiano

Also, be sure to check out Ben Ramsey's article on Infoworld too! Have you shared your own thoughts about today? Let us know and we'll add it to the list! Also be sure yo check out everyone that tagged their tweets too!

Noupe.com has posted their list of the top twenty useful components and tutorials that could be useful for PHP developers in their day to day work. The list includes:

• PHP components: Autosuggest
• Sanitize and Validate Data with PHP Filters
• Building Your First Simple CMS
• How to Make a Password Strength Meter Like Google
• How to Validate Forms in both sides using PHP and jQuery
• Smart Image Resizer

When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of javascript you can produce some pretty cool results. [... This list is] the best 20 FREE PHP Components and Tutorials that you will likely need in many of your projects, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure. Give them a try.

According to this new post on Chris Shiflett's blog, Zend has recieved another "boost" to their cash flow to the tune of $20 million in a fourth round of funding.

Chris cites both this News.com article and Zend's own press release on the topic:

The new funds will enable us to expand faster in emerging geographical markets, accelerate our product development and extend the services organization to meet the demands of our growing number of enterprise PHP customers.

He looks at it positively, noting that what's good for Zend is, ultimately, good for PHP - and this is very good for the company.

According to this new post on Chris Shiflett's blog, Zend has recieved another "boost" to their cash flow to the tune of $20 million in a fourth round of funding.

Chris cites both this News.com article and Zend's own press release on the topic:

The new funds will enable us to expand faster in emerging geographical markets, accelerate our product development and extend the services organization to meet the demands of our growing number of enterprise PHP customers.

He looks at it positively, noting that what's good for Zend is, ultimately, good for PHP - and this is very good for the company.

Vlado (on Dikini.net) has updated his patterns pages with several more new methods, brining the total up to around 20 different types.

I guess I'm on the down form my design pattern tantrum hit. I updated the collection so it now has about 20 of them, not all can be considered "officially" design patterns, but to be honest I don't really care. I'm very well aware that I ignore the existance of boundaries between design patterns, idioms, techniques, etc.

The collection now includes:

• Control abstraction
• Coroutines (generator based)
• Generator (iterator protocol based)
• Nested scope
• Partial Evaluation

Vlado (on Dikini.net) has updated his patterns pages with several more new methods, brining the total up to around 20 different types.

I guess I'm on the down form my design pattern tantrum hit. I updated the collection so it now has about 20 of them, not all can be considered "officially" design patterns, but to be honest I don't really care. I'm very well aware that I ignore the existance of boundaries between design patterns, idioms, techniques, etc.

The collection now includes:

• Control abstraction
• Coroutines (generator based)
• Generator (iterator protocol based)
• Nested scope
• Partial Evaluation