PHP-Scripts Blog

The TIOBE Programming Community index tracks the popularity of different programming languages. Over the last year positions #1-6 have not changed with PHP holding at #4 behind Java (#1), C (#2) and C++ (#3).

Heard a lot about Ruby over the last year or so? It moved from #21 to #11. Definitely on the move.

Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP, posts about PHP programming positions available at Yahoo:
Send me your resume and let me know what sort of stuff you are interested in or poke around on http://careers.yahoo.com/ and let me know which job interests you and I will forward your resume to the appropriate hiring manager.

Sooner or later you may want or need to port some Perl code to PHP. This Perl to PHP translation cheatsheet may come in handy.

Blog news that is unrelated to PHP:
When you hover over some of the third party links starting with the last couple posts, I’m trying out Websnapr to deliver thumbnail previews. You can also hover over Websnapr link. I’m noticing several “thumbnail in queue” messages at the moment and remain curious how long this will take […]

Generate PHP ASCII art in color online.

Behavior: Links in Reblog cannot be ‘archived’ or ‘published’
Problem: Reblog wasn’t sanitizing the ‘link’ field in the MySQL table properly, allowing injection of unescaped single quotes (’) from RSS feeds into the database. The query would fail and thus would never process properly.
File: Controller.class.php in /refeed/library/RF
Version: $Revision: 1.40 (reBlog version 2.0b2)
Status: Bug reported with code […]

If you are wondering about the cURL modifiers, the official man page has the details. Found this handy today while looking up what the -I does. The grabs the headers only.

IBM:
The introduction of new object-oriented programming (OOP) features in PHP V5 has significantly raised the level of functionality in this programming language. Not only can you have private, protected, and public member variables and functions — just as you would in the Java™, C++, or C# programming languages — but you can also create objects […]

Tim Bray writes a piece describing what he dislikes about PHP: “… all the PHP code I’ve seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML, replicated in slightly-varying form in dozens of places.”
Harry Fuecks counters at SitePoint with what he likes about PHP.
I don’t […]

Earlier over at Hmm, I was writing about Blog Explosion and I just received an email that says they are looking for a PHP / programmer. Here are the details:
Lead Developer/ Programmer
You should have an extensive knowledge of the following
- extensive knowledge of PHP
- MySQL
- HTML/CSS
- other?
If this is you let us know. We […]