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> very much like the PHP of old where stuff just works with sane defaults 'sane defaults' and 'PHP of old' are not things that go in a sentence together cough
by imron 10y ago
> very much like the PHP of old where stuff just works with sane defaults
'sane defaults' and 'PHP of old' are not things that go in a sentence together cough magic quotes cough
- sergiotapia 10y agoDude, you FTP'd a php file to a server and it ran automagically. It was really beautiful and turned so many people to programming. World-changing!
- always_good 10y agoNeeding WAMP just to do some local development was definitely not beautiful. That stuff was opaque and confusing to me as a beginner. The modern embedded server is what's beautiful.
- nilliams 10y agoIt sucks that you didn't get a local PHP env working easily, but I think you're an outlier there. The ease to get up and running with PHP is widely credited as a big factor in its success. I used a thing called 'easyphp' (executable that just gave you a wamp stack and just told you which dir to stick your php files in).
- always_good 10y agoWell, I'm talking about easy vs simple. I never got a local PHP(+Apache+MySQL) env working simply back then. easyphp.exe and wamp.exe are two good examples of what I mean.
- imron 10y agoI'm not saying that it was difficult to get up and running, my point of contention was sane defaults.