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Author here. I wrote this article as a guestblogger for Acquia, which is the company behind Drupal. I don't work at Acquia. The article obviously uses Drupal a

Author here. I wrote this article as a guestblogger for Acquia, which is the company behind Drupal. I don't work at Acquia. The article obviously uses Drupal as an example, PHPBB and Wordpress as comparison because they are all in the off-the-shelf, customizable category of PHP applications. Both Drupal and phpBB (contrast to Wordpress) have massively modernized their code bases in the last years and improved the quality of their code. Coming from their original level, this is obviously a huge undertaking and still far away from being "high quality code" as an absolute measure. However their efforts in this space are remarkable. Given that they have so huge installed code-basis that they have to take backwards compatibility seriously (which is also something that contributes to quality of software), explaining why it takes so long to improve the quality of truly old legacy software. Compare this with many companies that use PHP, that still don't know what automated testing and quality assurance is. The article tries to highlight how PHP open source software use tools for quality assurance, what tools exist and that you should use them in your PHP projects.

WiseWeasel 13y ago
FYI, there's currently a typo in the first paragraph ('loosing' => 'losing',) which made me cringe; you have to bury the typos further down where they'll have less influence on my perception of the piece. [edit]It's since been fixed. That was an impressively quick response.[/edit]
- beberlei 13y ago
  someone else mentioned it on twitter before, thanks for the hint :)
SkyMarshal 13y ago
Thanks for putting all this together. I recently find myself working with PHP again after last looking at it in 2003, and have been digging around getting up to speed. All sorts of interesting things happening in this space, especially PHP-FPM and HHVM. The language design and code quality/organization capabilities may not yet be up to snuff with Python and Ruby, but the runtime options are as good or better.

WiseWeasel 13y ago

FYI, there's currently a typo in the first paragraph ('loosing' => 'losing',) which made me cringe; you have to bury the typos further down where they'll have less influence on my perception of the piece. [edit]It's since been fixed. That was an impressively quick response.[/edit]

beberlei 13y ago
someone else mentioned it on twitter before, thanks for the hint :)

SkyMarshal 13y ago

Thanks for putting all this together. I recently find myself working with PHP again after last looking at it in 2003, and have been digging around getting up to speed. All sorts of interesting things happening in this space, especially PHP-FPM and HHVM. The language design and code quality/organization capabilities may not yet be up to snuff with Python and Ruby, but the runtime options are as good or better.