Facebook (a large site by any means of measurement), their codebase is in PHP (then converted to C++ for making it run more efficiently on their servers).
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358 Kevin On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Ben Rainir <benrai...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am a PHP programmer for over 5 years. > I've worked with PHP mixed with HTML, used with OO, and also with various > frameworks (ZEND, Cake, Symfony, etc), Web Services. It was easy to learn > php language, but to use it correctly and professionally took 2 years. > > Now I'm programming in ASP.NET with VS 2008 and see major differences. Surely > ASP.NET is much more robust, with several facilities. PHP has much to > offer, despite being an easy language to learn, but has not as productive > and robust tools. Zend has been engaged to form a robust framework and the > Eclipse community a productive IDE, but both projects are still children > compared to. NET and Java. > > For large projects advise ASP.NET or Java EE, but for small projects, PHP > does very well (PostgfreSQL + Apache + PHP + Zend Framework + Eclipse). But > the choice will depend on the team and the project size. > > Ben >
