PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 06:59:21 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Krystian Hoffman's Blog: 10 reasons why I use PHP]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8672 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8672 Krystian Hoffman has posted to his blog today a few reasons (10 to be exact) that he likes and uses PHP. Fortunately, most of them are some of the best reasons for anyone to use the language.

ended up with ten points on why I use PHP and I guess this would be a good post here on my blog, as it seems people like lists in general and maybe I could get some people out there that aren't really sure about whether PHP is good or bad, to get some insight at least.

Here's some of his list:

  • The PHP Community
  • The (language's) Performance
  • Its Portability
  • It has strong Object-oriented support

Other things got a mention as well - the low learning curve, low cost, included libraries - but the above few seemed the strongest.

]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:47:00 -0500 <![CDATA[SitePoint PHP Blog: Good and Bad PHP Code]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7924 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7924 On the SitePoint PHP blog today, Kevin Yank shares his thoughts in the form of a list for what makes for "good" and "bad" PHP code.

When interviewing a PHP developer candidate for a job at SitePoint, there is one question that I almost always ask, because their answer tells me so much about the kind of programmer they are. Here's the question: "In your mind, what are the differences between good PHP code and bad PHP code?"

Among the items on the list for the good side are things like: structure, consistency, security, and portability. He gives a bit of example code that shows the three levels of "goodness" in a script (using $_GET variables).

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