rob
July 3rd, 2005, 02:44 AM
It all started with a seemingly innocent little post in Usenet (http://groups.google.ch/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi/msg/cc7d43454d64d133?oe=UTF-8&output=gplain). Then, it slowly took over the web by storm, surpassing Microsoft's ASP and Perl's popularity by numbers no one expcted.
It plowed through the difficulty of CGI programming with Perl, and provided and open source solution that easily interfaced with a popualr database (MySQL, which is a whole different success story, partially fed by PHP's success in part) that put a sizeable dent in Microsoft's ASP.
So, since PHP has turned 10, I think it would be good to start a thread on how PHP has changed what you do in web development and its future.
For me personally, I can say PHP opened quite a few doors for both me and our company. It brought rapid application development to the web that Perl just couldn't quite do. It also had the ability to power larger applications with quite decent scalability.
At any rate, let's wish PHP a VERY Happy Birthday, and hope for 10 more wonderful years!
It plowed through the difficulty of CGI programming with Perl, and provided and open source solution that easily interfaced with a popualr database (MySQL, which is a whole different success story, partially fed by PHP's success in part) that put a sizeable dent in Microsoft's ASP.
So, since PHP has turned 10, I think it would be good to start a thread on how PHP has changed what you do in web development and its future.
For me personally, I can say PHP opened quite a few doors for both me and our company. It brought rapid application development to the web that Perl just couldn't quite do. It also had the ability to power larger applications with quite decent scalability.
At any rate, let's wish PHP a VERY Happy Birthday, and hope for 10 more wonderful years!