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Google’s App Engine for PHP Hits General Availability

40 points by zhuxuefeng1994 11y ago

x5n1 11y ago
crickets.
- nacs 11y ago
  Probably because easily deploying PHP to webservers in 2015 is not newsworthy anymore.
  - reilly3000 11y ago
    I think Google supporting PHP in app engine is newsworthy in that it gives a big nod of support to a community that has been reinvigorated of late. The app engine hoops will probably keep the wordpress crowd away but give people running serious apps another hosting option. I'm not on the PHP train but I know a lot of folks that are and this seems like a boon for their crowd.
jtreminio 11y ago
Blog post doesn't have much information not found in http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/App-Engine-for-PHP-is-generally-available-Build-scalable-apps-faster.html http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/App-Engine-f...
ourmandave 11y ago
Asking, anyone have a php site on google app engine? I'm interested to trying it but I have to have Python 2.7 installed (on windows) to install their SDK. Is vendor lock-in a concern?
- bquinlan 11y ago
  Is installing Python 2.7 a huge barrier? I bet that you can download and install it in less than 60 seconds (https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.4/ https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.4/).
  - ourmandave 11y ago
    Not a show stopper. But I don't know the first thing about Python and didn't want to have to learn how to install (and config it if something went wrong).
    - bquinlan 11y ago
      On Windows, installing Python involves double clicking on the installer, pressing the "Next" button until it turns into "Finish" and then pressing that. No configuration should be required. But point taken. It would be cool if Python were bundled with the Windows SDK.
- caseysoftware 11y ago
  Vendor lock-in isn't especially strong. I wrote the original Twilio/PHP/AppEngine docs almost two years ago: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/08/getting-started-with-twilio-and-google.html http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/08/getting-star...
wyaeld 11y ago
Anyone know if you can run Wordpress on it?
- Veratyr 11y ago
  Yep but you need Cloud SQL as well: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/appengine-php-wordpress-starter-project/ https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/appengine-php-wordpres...

x5n1 11y ago

crickets.

nacs 11y ago
Probably because easily deploying PHP to webservers in 2015 is not newsworthy anymore.
- reilly3000 11y ago
  I think Google supporting PHP in app engine is newsworthy in that it gives a big nod of support to a community that has been reinvigorated of late. The app engine hoops will probably keep the wordpress crowd away but give people running serious apps another hosting option. I'm not on the PHP train but I know a lot of folks that are and this seems like a boon for their crowd.

Blog post doesn't have much information not found in http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/App-Engine-for-PHP-is-generally-available-Build-scalable-apps-faster.html http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/App-Engine-f...

ourmandave 11y ago

Asking, anyone have a php site on google app engine? I'm interested to trying it but I have to have Python 2.7 installed (on windows) to install their SDK. Is vendor lock-in a concern?

bquinlan 11y ago
Is installing Python 2.7 a huge barrier? I bet that you can download and install it in less than 60 seconds (https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.4/ https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.4/).
- ourmandave 11y ago
  Not a show stopper. But I don't know the first thing about Python and didn't want to have to learn how to install (and config it if something went wrong).
  - bquinlan 11y ago
    On Windows, installing Python involves double clicking on the installer, pressing the "Next" button until it turns into "Finish" and then pressing that. No configuration should be required. But point taken. It would be cool if Python were bundled with the Windows SDK.
caseysoftware 11y ago
Vendor lock-in isn't especially strong. I wrote the original Twilio/PHP/AppEngine docs almost two years ago: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/08/getting-started-with-twilio-and-google.html http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/08/getting-star...

wyaeld 11y ago

Anyone know if you can run Wordpress on it?

Veratyr 11y ago
Yep but you need Cloud SQL as well: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/appengine-php-wordpress-starter-project/ https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/appengine-php-wordpres...