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Nexen.net: PHP Usage Statistics for March 2008

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:13:03 -0500

Damien Seguy has posted the latest statistics for PHP's usage for the month of March 2008. Here's some of the highlights:

There were no surprises, only data reinforcing already set trends
PHP 5 now make up over a third of all PHP installations to date
More installations moved up to PHP versions 5.2.5 and 4.4.8
Apache has almost reached 70% of the web server market share

You can check out the full details on this month's stats page including the evolution stats over on Nexen.net.

Community News: PHP comes in Fifth in TIOBE Programming Community Index

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:24:00 -0600

As mentioned by the International PHP Magazine site, the latest results for the TIOBE Programming Community Index poll are in for January and it looks like PHP has lost some ground.

PHP, previously in the number four slot, has been superseded by Visual Basic by a decent margin (a difference of 1.18%). This shows as a drop in popularity (as measured by the survey) to be trending back down to where it was around the middle of 2005. It still remains in the top five, though, in a close race with Visual Basic and C++ for those three positions.

The full language list and graph showing the trends back to 2002 can be found on the TIOBE website.

Hiveminds Magazine: A High Demand for PHP Developers in 2007

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:05:00 -0600

Hiveminds Magazine reminds us with a quick post today that the demand for PHP developers only seems to be going up for the upcoming year (2007):

All of the php developer employment statistics point to a prosperous year for those that have PHP in their arsenal of programming knowledge. [...] Now with a conjecture that is showing high promise is on the horizon, PHP developers are sitting in good standing on the job market.

There's a bit of a graph showing the decline of the Java developer and the slight advantage PHP is gaining over ASP.Net currently. Their assumption is that, with a period of steadiness that PHP is seeing right now, there will be an upturn in the PHP trend (as is usually the case).

Tectonic.co.za: PHP is dead. Long live PHP!

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:53:53 -0500

In this post from Jason Norwood-Young, he shares his opinions on the lifespan of PHP - that maybe, just maybe, PHP has passed its prime.

A friend recently told me that PHP is on its way out, Ruby on Rails is where it's at. I scoffed. I chuckled. Then I gave it some thought. Could PHP have had its day?

[After my research] I have to conclude that my friend might be right in one respect - PHP has had its day. If the trend continues, it means that PHP will one day not be the hottest thing on the web like it is right now.

He's not abandoning ship just yet, though - he notes that:

PHP still has plenty of legs, and it will take quite a bit to wind it. I'm not sure what will take its place, but somehow I don't think Ruby on Rails will be the successor. PHP's advantage over the rest is that it's a web application, through and through. It doesn't try to also be a desktop application language, a server application language, a widget application language... it just spits out web pages fast and efficiently.

DynamicWebPages.de: Current PHP Stats Move Upward

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:57:31 -0600

PHP just keeps growing and growing - popularity is back on the rise and DynamicWebPages.de has the statistics to prove it.

In breaking down the statistics for the period of December 2005 through January 2006, over 1.9 million domains are using PHP, and the number only continues to climb. In February, the upward trend continued and usage jumped up 1 million domains more. March, however, has only seen about 100,000 additional domains making the total 21,439,178. On the server side of things there's never much fluctuation and it still sits steady around the 1.3 million mark.

PHP usage took a hit in usage around the beginning of the year, but it's coming back quickly and will soon be back up to the 23 million domain usage soon.