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PHP 5.5.8 Released
- codelittle 13y agoRuby 2.1.0 is out.
- whocares111 13y agoGreat, you and the other 10 Ruby developers out there can rejoice!
- cies 13y agoGrayed out means down voted, right? But why?! First good comment on the thread: no bitching, no need to click the link to find ~20 fixes, here's the alternative, never look back. Period.
- cbg0 13y agoMight have something to do with it being off-topic and not adding anything to the conversation.
- justinsteele 13y agoAs someone who's professional life generally revolves around Ruby, and in the past has revolved around Python and PHP.. it's a stupid comment. PHP is a perfectly capable language of producing high quality products.. and that is what actually matters.
- elwell 13y agoHow does this compare to the latest HHVM?
- dkhenry 13y agoIt looks like this is mostly bug fixes. So I imagine this will have little impact on HHVM
- dougbarrett 13y agoAlso, I believe HHVM is looking for 5.4 parity, also I would imagine that some of these bug fixes would not need to be looked into since it's two entirely separate projects.
- smacktoward 13y agoAaaaaaand cue 250+ comments complaining about PHP, mostly centered around issues that were much bigger in 2009 than they are in 2014...
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- pessimizer 13y agoAaaaaaand before that happens, cue multiple comments whining about how it's about to happen.
- mgkimsal 13y ago20 GOTO 10
- anonymfus 13y agoInteresting believable factoids about PHP: 1. PHP supports goto since version 5.3.0; people speculated that term "troll driven development" in announcement was not a joke. 2. $ variable prefix in Perl was a joke about Hungarian notation and first BASIC dialects. PHP take that joke seriously.
- hahainternet 13y agophp\namespace\tragedy
- alexbilbie 13y agoWe got over it, moved on and built things.
- nawitus 13y agoIf most critique centers around issues that have been solved, that doesn't imply that there aren't critique that hasn't been solved. I honestly can't think of a single good reason to PHP these days. Node.js is certainly better, so is Django. The only benefit of PHP is that you can create a small script quickly on a host that you don't control. Therefore PHP shouldn't be considered for anything serious.
- pearjuice 13y agoFriendly reminder that we can't have anything involving PHP without: * complaints about features it has or has not * a reference to that "a fractal of bad design" article * how language x is better * sarcastic, ironic or post-ironic notes about the above * one guy pointing out we can't have anything involving PHP without the above
- pessimizer 13y ago* before any of this happens, multiple comments whining about how it's about to happen.
- stusmall 13y agoPosts about how needle/haystack hackstack/needle makes it "completely unusable"
- parfe 13y agoA bugfix point release hardly worth mentioning. "This release fixes about 20 bugs against PHP 5.5.7 components."
- piokoch 13y agoPHP has a reputation as a language that makes dead easy to write very ugly sphagetti code. As far as I learned a lot has chaned since last time I was using PHP - something like 5 years ago. Is there any good book or other resource which describes modern PHP with best practices, parts to avoid, etc?
- fleitz 13y agoI'd recommend this for modern PHP: http://www.nodebeginner.org/ http://www.nodebeginner.org/ It's a great intro on how to write sphagetti code with out losing face.
- paraxisi 13y agoI've seen this around a few times, seems to be what you're looking for http://www.phptherightway.com http://www.phptherightway.com
- jbeja 13y agoI am reading "Apress Expert PHP and MySQL", the code is very releasable, it teach good practices about security and sql management, is more target to beginners and intermediate level programmers, but i really like how the author view and teaching skills.
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- jbeja 13y agoYour point?
- pearjuice 13y agoSo you declass PHP to a fancy templating engine because you have had problems with third party plugins for Wordpress? On a related note, I just downloaded a Fart-app and my iPhone 2G froze. I'm glad Apple is developing, but they should just abandon the consumer market.
- 10098 13y agoGod, these comments are awful
- mildtrepidation 13y agoI hope that's just mild disgust and not surprise... it's HN. History repeats itself every twelve minutes. [edit]Which is not to say I don't agree with the "PHP is garbage" comments. I just also agree with the "seriously, we read all of this the last three thousand times PHP articles were posted, please shut up" snark.[/edit]
- nawitus 13y agoIf PHP is garbage, every article about PHP should be about PHP being garbage to make sure everyone stays away from PHP.
- joemaller1 13y agoDisappointed with the comments in here, I was really expecting at least one joke about Python 3 adoption.
- krapp 13y ago>Passing DOMDocumentFragment to DOMDocument::saveHTML() Produces invalid Markup Of the few things PHP should be great at, parsing and generating html markup is close to the top of the list. Yet DOMDocument has given me so many headaches...
- workhere-io 13y agoSince anything PHP-related on HN is bound to spur the usual PHP hate, here's something that might confuse the haters: PHP is actually faster than Go in many cases (according to http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7&test=query&f=5mdc-0-0 http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7...).
- Vieira 13y agoI do not consider myself an hater (I have used both php and go). I would say the results on that page are consequence of php having more mature database drivers (written in C) than go, that is still in its infancy. If you look at for e.g. Plaintext it is more in line with what one would expect from a compiled language versus an interpreted one.
- janson0 13y agoThanks for letting me know! Going to update on my development environment so I can run our tests against it to be sure nothing broke.
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