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I refer you to http://www.phpbeyondtheweb.com http://www.phpbeyondtheweb.com

• astrodust 13y ago
  The subtitle for that book could be "Just because you can doesn't mean you should". Why would anyone write non-web code in PHP? It's completely out of its element. If your selling point is "not having to learn" you're not being very fair to developers that use PHP. If you can't learn, you've got a problem. New technology comes up all the time, and if you can't adapt, you'll get left behind. Would you recommend a PHP to JavaScript converter so you can do PHP in the browser and avoid all that painful "learning"? What about "bash beyond the shell"? It's possible. Would you want to write an application in bash? Please, do not. Everything that made PHP popular and versatile is now a massive liability. Perl went through the same cycle from saviour to relic and that community has been struggling to try and reinvent itself (Perl 6) in a manner that's in keeping with today's concerns. The level of change you'd have to introduce in PHP to make it current is so staggering you may as well write a whole new language. Even the relatively modest changes made to modernize Python have caused an enormous rift.