Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-20 Thread Richard Quadling
On 19 September 2011 22:08, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi gang: I need information to convince administrators in management that PHP is a viable subject that should be taught in college with credits going toward a Degree or Certification. You see, I am pushing for a Web

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-20 Thread Bastien
On 2011-09-20, at 12:05 AM, Tommy Pham tommy...@gmail.com wrote: ASP? Not ASP.NET? Wow... I haven't any new sites deployed in ASP in almost 10 years. IIRC, ASP is nothing more but bunch of spaghetti codes and no OOP. That's why attendance/registration is so low. Only main web (server

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-20 Thread Tim Thorburn
On 9/19/2011 5:08 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote: As such, I need information regarding how wide-spread PHP is (i.e., number of installations), who's using it (i.e., companies, organizations), and how it compares with other Web Languages (i.e., ASP, Ruby, etc.). Since it's a school, you might also

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-20 Thread Tommy Pham
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Bastien phps...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-09-20, at 12:05 AM, Tommy Pham tommy...@gmail.com wrote: ASP? Not ASP.NET? Wow... I haven't any new sites deployed in ASP in almost 10 years. IIRC, ASP is nothing more but bunch of spaghetti codes and no OOP.

[PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-19 Thread Tedd Sperling
Hi gang: I need information to convince administrators in management that PHP is a viable subject that should be taught in college with credits going toward a Degree or Certification. You see, I am pushing for a Web Development Certification program that would include PHP/MySQL as well as

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-19 Thread Bastien Koert
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi gang: I need information to convince administrators in management that PHP is a viable subject that should be taught in college with credits going toward a Degree or Certification. You see, I am pushing for a

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-19 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 17:08, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: As such, I need information regarding how wide-spread PHP is (i.e., number of installations), who's using it (i.e., companies, organizations), and how it compares with other Web Languages (i.e., ASP, Ruby, etc.).

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-19 Thread David Harkness
Gently remind them that the P in LAMP stands for PHP. There's a big reason most every web developer can tell you what each letter in LAMP stands for: heavy market penetration. Peace, David

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-19 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 18:10, David Harkness davi...@highgearmedia.com wrote: Gently remind them that the P in LAMP stands for PHP. There's a big reason most every web developer can tell you what each letter in LAMP stands for: heavy market penetration. It has become a presumption in that

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-19 Thread Gregor Mitzka
As far as I know it is called LAMPP and not LAMP. So you have PHP and also Perl. But never the less PHP is one of the most widespread web languages now-a-days. 2011/9/20 Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 18:10, David Harkness davi...@highgearmedia.com wrote: Gently remind

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-19 Thread Jason Pruim
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 19, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Tedd Sperling tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi gang: I need information to convince administrators in management that PHP is a viable subject that should be taught in college with credits going toward a Degree or Certification. Would

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-19 Thread David Harkness
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 18:10, David Harkness davi...@highgearmedia.com wrote: Gently remind them that the P in LAMP stands for PHP. It has become a presumption in that regard, yes, but the 'P' in LAMP was actually

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-19 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 20:17, David Harkness davi...@highgearmedia.com wrote: LOL! That I totally forgot it used to stand for Perl pretty much proves my point. That or focusing on any language for a few years will tend to make one fairly myopic. :) I waited for someone to chime in about

Re: [PHP] PHP installations, usage, and popularity

2011-09-19 Thread Tommy Pham
ASP? Not ASP.NET? Wow... I haven't any new sites deployed in ASP in almost 10 years. IIRC, ASP is nothing more but bunch of spaghetti codes and no OOP. That's why attendance/registration is so low. Only main web (server side) development languages are ASP.NET (C#), Java, and PHP (listed as