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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. We suspect the PHP MySQL driver and connection pool are particularly well tuned. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe. How we designed the tests. PHP 5.3.10.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. We suspect the PHP MySQL driver and connection pool are particularly well tuned. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe. How we designed the tests. PHP 5.3.10.

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Where Can You Go If You Want To Learn PHP?

YoungUpstarts

Although WordPress uses several different programming languages – HTML, CSS, MySQL and JavaScript, to name a few – PHP is what primarily drives the platform’s backend. Honestly, I think it’s worth knowing at least a bit about PHP even if you don’t plan to become a developer. First, Sign Up For Code Academy’s PHP Course.

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How to Effectively Use WordPress as Your CMS

Brandanew

The first thing is to change the permalink structure to make your post’s URL look like “/web-design/wordpress-as-cms/”. There is an option to finalize templates for different web pages but it requires PHP scripting when it comes to finalizing templates for posts. Initial settings after having installed WordPress.

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Twitter Link Roundup #227 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! I’m sure you’ve noticed the proliferation of social click-bait media designed to get people to click the latest story on silly topics. – crowdspring.co/1kGLgwz.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Then, the first languages designed for Web development began to show up. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. One of the most popular frameworks in those days were PHP-Nuke and Zend, that was tightly coupled with PHP programming language.

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