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Basecamp and Backpack from 37signals use PHP
- ivan 19y agoPHP Easter eggs tell us everything: http://basecamphq.com/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000 http://basecamphq.com/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000 http://backpackit.com/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000 http://backpackit.com/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000
- davidw 19y agoIsn't that just telling you that the web server has PHP loaded into it?
- ivan 19y agoIf you try these strings on a URL that isn't PHP, they won't work, even if the web server has PHP support. In any case you can: 1. Try it somewhere. 2. Visit http://37signals.com/index.php http://37signals.com/index.php 3. Ask'em directly.
- antirez 19y agoActually the easter egg only works if the given page is interpreted as PHP.
- davidw 19y agoAha - ok, well then like their own site, 37signals.com, it's the front page that is in PHP, something that has been known for a while.
- antirez 19y agoYes, btw... if an application is good quality for the customers who cares what language they used?
- davidw 19y agoWell... those of us interested in replicating their success:-)
- antirez 19y agoGiven that Flickr is written in PHP, Delicious in Perl, Reddit in Python, Foo in Bar, I think that unless you are using something like Java or C++ that really will make you 5 times slower in the development process it does not really matter too much. IMHO this is highly related to the nature of web applications where the design of the UI, the feeling, and the idea you are developing is much more important than complex data structures and funky algorithms (being the only real challenge scalability in many projects). What's nice is that actually if you master computer science it counts even in web programming as long as there are non trivial problems to solve, but this happens 5% of the times compared of 95% when you write, for example, a compiler.
- tuukkah 19y agoGood to remember this case of 20% effort for 80% result. Why build all of your app tediously if one page is enough.
- Lessien 19y agohttp://37signals.com/index.rhtml http://37signals.com/index.rhtml also works. As does http://37signals.com/index.nothingspecial http://37signals.com/index.nothingspecial Apparently, the file extension is irrelevant when processing pages.
- brett 19y agoit's more than file extension http://37signals.com/here/is/a/bunch/of/nonsense http://37signals.com/here/is/a/bunch/of/nonsense (though that does throw off the path to the css)
- joshwa 19y agothis is only true of the product info sites, not the apps themselves.
- rami 19y agoThey use PHP for include files written in PHP.
- paulgb 19y agoThe server headers confirm this. Server: Apache/2.2.4 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4
- bdr 19y agoBut what about Netcraft?
- jaggederest 19y agoDHH was a PHP dev before he built Rails. Go read his blog. It's not surprising that some of their stuff is still in PHP.