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DevX.com: Generating Reports and Statistics in PHP

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:26:31 -0500

The DevX site has posted a new tutorial talking about their method for creating reports and generating statistics based off of data from your PHP application.

Statistics and reports analyze the change over time of any kind of phenomena. [...] For the software industry, statistics and reports provide both an ongoing challenge and an ongoing market. At present, programming languages such as PHP and Java come with built-in packages for developing applications around statistical problems.

They use two PEAR packages for the statistics - Text_Statistics and XML_Statistics to pull in different kinds of data and extract results from it. The next step is to make a meaningful report out of these numbers - that's where PHPReports comes in. It's a simple tool that makes simple reports for you that can then be styled with CSS however you'd like.

Stefan Priebsch's Blog: PHPUnit test and Code Coverage Statistics with phing

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:15:18 -0500

Stefan Priebsch has posted an example of how he uses PHPUnit "manually" to reduce the overhead (and added complexity) of calling phing.

Instead of instantiating PHPUnit from phing, I use the command line interface to call PHPUnit. This decouples phing and PHPUnit, which should cause less problems with version updates in the future. To configure PHPUnit, phing creates a temporary XML configuration file which is deleted after PHPUnit has finished.

The source is included in the post - it manually builds the XML file needed for phing to do its job.

Ivo Jansch's Blog: Interview in Computerworld UK

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:12:00 -0600

Ivo Jansch points out a recent interview he was asked to do in the Computerworld UK magazine about the recent launch of the Ibuildings company there in the UK.

I was recently interviewed by Computerworld UK regarding our launch in the UK and the current rise of PHP in the corporate world. The result is online here.

He also asks readers how they see PHP adoption going in their companies: "Post a comment to let me know how 'PHP' and 'Business' go together in your region."

Nexen.net: PHP Statistics for July 2007

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:13:00 -0500

Damien Seguy has posted the latest usage statistics for PHP in the month of July 2007 today on Nexen.net:

PHP adoption statistics for July 2007 are released.
Here are the monthly highlight :

PHP 5 is now more than 20%
PHP 5.2 is above 10% in PHP market share
PHP 4.4.7 still going strongly

As usual, lots of other details : PHP versions, Apache, country details, etc. Feel free to ask any other details, stats or context about the study.

Check out the full monthly stats here and check out the evolution stats here.