PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 13:02:54 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Community News: Google App Engine now Supports PHP runtime]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/19595 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/19595 On the Google Developers Blog (and lots of places across the web) there's a major update that Google has done for their AppEngine service - the introduction of a PHP runtime to their offerings.

App Engine 1.8.0 is now available and includes a Limited Preview of the PHP runtime - your top requested feature. We're bringing one of the most popular web programming languages to App Engine so that you can run open source apps like Wordpress. It also offers deep integration with other parts of Cloud Platform including Google Cloud SQL and Cloud Storage.

You can get more information about how to use this new feature on Google App Engine site.

Link: https://gaeforphp.appspot.com]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 10:05:03 -0500 <![CDATA[Herbert's Blog: PHP with SQL on Google App Engine]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/12670 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/12670 Herbert has submitted a link to his blog that talks about using PHP on the Google App Engine including a wrapper class, pQg.

Google is now supporting 2 languages for Google App Engine: Phyton and Java. [...] Currently focusing on how to use 'normal' SQL in PHP scripts at Google App Engine.

Topics covered so far include:

]]> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:37:59 -0500 <![CDATA[Michael Kimsal's Blog: Why not PHP for Google's App Engine?]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9950 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/9950 In a recent post to his blog, Michael Kimsal asks a question that I'm sure PHP developers everywhere are wondering - why did Google choose to go with Python as the programming language of choice for their new App Engine service.

TechCrunch is announcing Google's new "App Engine" service being launched this evening. The basic service is a full app stack hosted and managed by Google, providing a web framework (maybe I'm misreading this?) and the Google 'big table' database service. [...] My question is "why was Python was chosen instead of PHP?"

There's been some great responses since it was originally posted including everything from agreement to rationalizations for the move (though there is a fair amount of PHP and Python bashing going on - an obvious occurance).

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