Comments on: Mythbusting PHP: 10 common myths about PHP

By: Eneza

Eneza — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:31:55 +0000

Interesting post… I use php and im trying to be a better coder. Spaghetti code yeah!!!

Hell yeah!

By: Television

Television — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:40:18 +0000

PHP is the most versatile of web languages, the only problem with it is that it’s really limited to web applications and sites, yeah you can create an actual desktop program out of it but it’s too clunky and unnecessary and you should rather spend your time with C or VB or Delphi, etc to make such desktop programs. PHP is surprisingly resilient and can do some incredible things with the given addons and extensions.

By: php coder

php coder — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:02:56 +0000

php and perl are both excellent cgi langs.

HOWEVER, do not use PHP image modules or image magick commands on dreamhost.com shared servers, or their admins will shut off your site without notice claiming your using up to much CPU seconds!! lmfao

By: Jeena

Jeena — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:27:45 +0000

If 9 is confirmed, it’s not a myth. Remove it.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:12:33 +0000

I agree with this article, but number 7 isn’t quite right…. ruby is fairly easy to pick up, but rails is incredibly slow compared to other frameworks at the moment. All this is slowly coming to change, so i think that number 7 should not be included in your list. Aside from that, it was a great article.

By: Spearhead

Spearhead — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:35:02 +0000

Urd (http://urd.sourceforge.net/) is entirely written in PHP including a daemon process. The biggest problem we ran into devving it is no threads support and yenc decoding is many factors slower than a c program.

By: Rickyok

Rickyok — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:34:19 +0000

Hi, thanks for the post. Me too a PHP Programmer. Well PHP has been helped me a lot this 6 years. I loved it so much ^^.

By: hanson

hanson — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:48:22 +0000

I want to add to 9. that PHP’s garbage collector is utterly broken, making it very hard to run a PHP program longer than the usual time span taken by a typical web page request.

The garbage collector is unfortunately unable to detect cyclic object references and cannot free the memory occupied by objects which contain cyclic references. It can be worked around, but this is associated with some programming overhead and a lot of discipline, which requires the programmer to explicitly unset and destruct objects as soon as they are not needed anymore.

Having created a huge object-oriented web application framework in PHP for myself, I stumbled over all these nasty technical problems and had to solve them in order to keep the memory consumption to its “standard” 8M limit.

I guess, that’s a big reason why using PHP for running services or desktop applications is currently not a bright idea.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:15:20 +0000

great post thanks

By: Metathione

Metathione — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:17:03 +0000

great post. i liked it…