Nexen published the latest stats of PHP diffusion on the web for september 2005. In the previous post I was talking about PHP5 which still not popular. You can see that PHP5 usage for september is only 4.22% compared to PHP4 which is 94.50% !
You can notice also that the most used version of PHP4 are the PHP 4.3.10 and 4.3.11. You can see also on these stats the repartition of php servers worldwide on a world map. The highest percent is in Sao Tomé et Principe (.st) with 82.12 % and the number one arab country is Libye with 58.77 % ! While france have just 44.73 % and USA 34.32 %.
In this stats 9,5 million servers have been tested and 5,5 millions have been retained for the stats. Domains without website, parcked domains or inaccessible have been illiminated.
There is no big news in the PHP Community since long time, a news that make newspapers and magazines talk about PHP, an innovation that will change the world ! Does the scripting language war is over ? Someone could inform us at least who won.
This month will held the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo and next month there is the Forum PHP in Paris. Almost same conferences, same topics, same people talking here and there. Sice last year, nothing new happened ! PHP5 is there with strongest OOP support and lot of new features … and what’s next ? PHP4 is still the most used, and migration have been very very slow !
Continue reading PHP Community down for maintenance
Using a fresh install of PHP, it’s always a problem for newbies specially if they’re working offline there is a need to deal with big files. And if I start working with phpmyadmin I don’t prefer to visit mysql console just to run my dump file. So in case you need to tweak your PHP to upload big files there is three parameters to change in php.ini
- upload_max_filesize
- memory_limit
- post_max_size
Why I’m posting this ? because I always change the first one upload_max_filesize and forget to tweak the others. Now I have to remember …
Dan Zambonini, posted on O’Reilly Network about the total cost of using PHP. In conclusion :
This sounds more negative than I imagined it would have. It’s not meant to be - I’m very happy with the progress PHP has made over the last few years (finally, native Unicode support is coming!).
Short answer
PHP Cost $0.00
Long answer
Dan pointed to two times to recruitment, personally I never faced this problem. Maybe because I’m more in touch with the PHP community ? Filtering CVs costs money of course, but I used to know a lot of developers so in case there is a job offer it’s very easy to send CV to the right persons. It’s better than advertising and then filter thousands of offers, if you get thousands ?? cause I’m not sure ! Good PHP developers are rare these days, and they are almost all known. I think filtering CVs will be more difficult with Ruby, .NET or J2EE, I saw CVs with lot of certifications etc and when you talk whith the guy and see his work he’s a newbie who still have difficulties to type on keyboard.
Continue reading The total cost of using PHP !?
Bloggers Magazine is out, a new magazine dedicated for bloggers and written by bloggers. The september 2005 edition is about 20 pages with news and articles about blogging and bloggers. In this edition also an exclusive interview with the creator of pLog, an excellent bloggers solution written in PHP, and the first series of articles to create a successful Blog.
Read more at the Blog’s Blog
I don’t know why zend emails are always special, its already a good point ! The beta 5 of their Zend Studio have been just released recently and of course it should be announced with some marketing compains, starting by their current customers.
Two emails in the same day, one announcing Zend Studio beta 5 and the second about Zend Upgrades & Support renewal. The second email start with
[…]
Dear Mr. …..,
I trust that you have been satisfied with your Zend products.
[…]
Well sincerely Zend Studio is a nice IDE, but currently I’m using Scite (1000 time faster). Zend is also making a new experience with Customer relationship, by moving to SalesForce, which is a very good step in my opinion.
Continue reading Zend, that’s too much confidence !
I don’t know if the timing was choosen or simple coincidence, Ilia Alshanetsky announced his PHP Guide to Security published by php|architect NanoBooks. Some days after Chris Shiflett announced the Essential PHP Security published by O’Reilly.
Continue reading Two PHP security books released
August 29, 2005 - Oracle and Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, today announced the availability of the beta version of Zend Core for Oracle. This version is available as a free download from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) and the Zend Web site.
The production version of Zend Core for Oracle, available later this year, will deliver a fully tested and supported environment that provides tight integration between Oracle® Database and Zend’s supported PHP environment. It enables developers to get up and running in minutes with PHP, the popular open source Web development language, using an Oracle infrastructure. Zend Core for Oracle also delivers an updated PHP “OCI8″ driver, providing enhanced reliability, stability and performance for Oracle Database-driven Web applications.
Continue reading Zend and Oracle Release Beta of Easy to Install PHP Version
Nusphere have just released PHPEd 4. The most important new features in this new edition :
- True Unicode editor
- SFTP is supported for secure uploads and downloads,
- Telnet and SSH terminals for remote administrative tasks
- Improved code completion and code insight functionality
- Support for Oracle and MSSQL databases
- Highly customizable graphical user interface
- Instant error analysis
- Support for all php versions up to php 4.4.0 and 5.0.4
- Seamlessly integrated with Windows Shell
- Extended integration abilities
SpikeSource is currently sponsoring an Open Testing Contest. The contest aims to promote the concept of participatory testing while at the same time help projects improve their testing process. They are even offering prizes to the projects that improve their testing the most. First, if you haven’t nominated your project, you better do it fast. The deadline is August 31st.
Code coverage is measured by three tools for C/C++ (Bullseye), php (phpcodecoverage), and Java (clover) applications. SpikeSource will provide daily results for the aggregated code coverage across each project based on the results provided by these tools. The winning project will be the one that increases relative code coverage the most from September 15 - December 31, 2005.
Continue reading Open Testing Contest with Over $20,000 in Prizes
