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karsten: PHP 5.3 is now released. See http://php.net/releases/5_3_0.php for more information robertlemke — 6 days ago
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
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robert: PHP 5.3 final has been released - congratulations! A great opportunity for trying out FLOW3 1.0.0 alpha 2 we'll release tomorrow. robertlemke — 6 days ago
karsten: Go to http://tr.im/voteFLOW3 and help us win the SourceForge Community Choice Awards! FLOW3 PHP Framework robertlemke — 13 days ago
karsten: XHProf (the PHP profiler by the facebook people) now also works on a Mac - and it looks promising, *much* faster than Xdebug... robertlemke — 25 days ago
karsten: We released FLOW3 1.0.0 alpha 1 today - enjoy and spread the news! http://tr.im/nbM2 PHP TYPO3 release robertlemke — about 1 month ago
Ohloh Analysis Summary
- Mostly written in C
- Mature, well-established codebase
- Very large, active development team
- Artistic License may conflict with GPL
- Apache Software License may conflict with GPL
- PHP License may conflict with GPL
Updated 30 Jun 2009 14:04 UTC
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about 1 year
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Great for small scripts, failed to grow up
by dfoerster
PHP is perfectly suited for small web development tasks, like to add some dynamic content to static pages without much overhead or setup.
The language is easy to learn and to handle, and can also be used to create command line scripts. (Instead of the more complicated Perl for example.)
However, PHP's history, evolving from a macro processor is still visible. While it supports OOP, the core of the language is not object oriented
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9 months
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Good for powering content
by Ross Masters
PHP was my introduction to programming and I feel it is a good language for first-timers to learn. It needs understanding of HTML, which is an excellent starting point for any new programmer.
I agree with Rasmus's view that PHP is essentially a templating language as at it's most basic it generates HTML output. Unfortunately it's grown up as a spiderweb of libraries which has earned it a lot of criticism but these libraries are of good
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PHP 5.3.0 Released!
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PHP 5.2.10 Released!
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