A very popular Web Application Server/language.

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

http://www.php.net/

MAMP for MacOsX http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp.html

The conclusion arrived at is that, in some circumstances at least, PHP's tendency to create more problems than it solves makes it an inappropriate choice. http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002/papers/html/php/index.html

Oversimplification Leading to Excessive Complexity http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002/papers/html/php/#section_5

tutorial on use of Web Cookie and session data

compared to PeRl (with some good reference details on PHP)

TimBray post with lots of comments/links pro/con PHP.

• which leads Ian Bicking toward thinking about a Python Web Framework might be designed to mimic the best traits of PHP.

Recommend reading list.

used at YaHoo

• z2002-10-30- Yahoo P H P

• z2007-11-08- Delicious Php Del Icio Us

• this includes some structure they use

  • [PEAR], [APC], [SymFony]

• http://developer.yahoo.com/php/

[Coding Standards] on [PEAR] site.

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