PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:35:08 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Michelangelo van Dam's Blog: Fosdem 2009 in review]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/11939 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/11939 Michelangelo van Dam has posted his summary of his experience at this year's FOSDEM conference (Free & Open Source Developers European Meeting) and includes some answers to the "top five" questions they were asked there.

On days like these, we're a central point for information and people used the opportunity to ask us a lot of questions regarding PHP.

Their top five list varied from questions about training and certifications to where they might find a local PHP user group. Here's the full list:

  • Where can I/our company turn to for advanced PHP training courses ?
  • Is there a certification program for PHP developers (like for Java, .Net, ...) ?
  • Is PHP enterprise ready ?
  • I'm from ..., is there a PHP user group in my neighborhood ?
  • Where can I get more information about PHP ?
]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:08:20 -0600 <![CDATA[PHPedia Blog: Top 5 PHP replacements for Apache default directory listing]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10674 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10674 The PHPedia blog has posted their top five list if scripts to replace the default listing Apache does for a directory without an index file.

Here's their list:

Check out the PHPedia post for example screenshots of each.

]]> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:21:25 -0500 <![CDATA[TIOBE: Programming Community Index for April 2007]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7594 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7594 According to the latest results from the TIOBE Software Programming Community Index (Popularity) for April 2007, PHP has remained in the top five of the list, staying strong at number four.

It saw a loss of 2.24% from the previous ranking but, thankfully, the rest of the top five saw the same kind of decrease. According to their long term trends, PHP is seeing an overall decline (right along with Java) as one of the top languages. Other languages like C++, Python, and Ruby are currently growing in use but don't quite have the percentage of adoption needed yet.

Their results also show a good jump in the adoption of object-oriented languages, but a drop in procedural language use.

]]> Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:26:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Vexxhost.com: Top 5 new (and cool!) features in PHP5 that you probably haven't heard of]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7036 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7036 From the Vexxhost.com blog today comes a quick overview of some of the "new and cool features" of PHP 5 that you might not have heard of - a top five list.

PHP5 has brought so much new features but because of its big syntax changes, a big percentage of the PHP developing base has not made the change. Here are the top new features that could change your mind.

The list they've created includes:

  • Better error handling with exceptions
  • Completely rewritten MySQL extension
  • A heck of a lot more useful functions
  • Finally! SQLite database support!
  • The best damn OOP support period
with each having a bit of a explanatory paragraph...

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