True, that's pretty easy. But it's also just as easy as getting most other language or frameworks up and running. And since the argument I was replying to was that PHP was good because those other languages are too hard to configure then, implicitly, PHP is too hard to configure - at least for the guy I was replying to.
And if you're relying on your webhost having your language-of-choice already configured for you, well, you can find webhosts with most of the obvious choices already configured. So what does that leave?
I would suggest that PHP does not, today, have any advantage over other competing languages and frameworks in the "it just works" sweepstakes.
Re:PHP Sucks But I Like It
by tambourine_man on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @07:42PM
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Was going to say the same, yum makes it very easy.
What we need is a Douglas Crockford for PHP.
A “PHP: the good parts” and a good PHPlint would do wonders to the language and community.
As previously discussed on HN, Robert Eisele's fork of PHP (at v5.3.6) which attempts to fix many of the issues.
http://www.lifelinux.com/how-to-install-nginx-and-php-fpm-on...
Looks pretty easy to me.
Then again, I compile my own version of Apache with FastCGI and PHP-FPM all the time.