Re:High Quality PHP
by jiggy2011 on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @09:13AM
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The big difference that the PHP ecosystem seems to have vs the ruby/python ecosystems is an emphasis on providing complete stand-alone solutions to problems vs providing developers with the most flexible and powerful tooling to develop their own solutions.
Whenever I find myself wanting a photo-gallery, an eCommerce platform or a forum I always seem to find that the most mature solutions are based on PHP.
The advantage of this is that semi-technical webmasters can easily deploy complete websites without writing a line of code, thus the underlying code quality is of secondary importance to the functionality provided.
Re:High Quality PHP
by polysics on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @09:22AM
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That is not necessarily an advantage, considering the same semi-technical people leave their websites available for any kind of security breach.
This is not 2001 any more, people should know what they are doing.
Re:High Quality PHP
by jiggy2011 on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @09:47AM
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it is what it is, if they weren't using PHP they would be using something else. Having said that it shouldn't really be an expert level activity putting a few webpages online.
Whenever I find myself wanting a photo-gallery, an eCommerce platform or a forum I always seem to find that the most mature solutions are based on PHP.
The advantage of this is that semi-technical webmasters can easily deploy complete websites without writing a line of code, thus the underlying code quality is of secondary importance to the functionality provided.