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:

• Sending email with PHP at GAE
• Creating, retrieving, updating & deleting records in PHP @ GAE
• pQg = PHP with SQL on GAE
• How to use pQg

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).