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A couple of links about PHP

While looking for the PHP XML-RPC implementation I mentioned not long ago, I came across a couple of interesting links at its author's weblog.

Everyone's an expert:

I love PHP. I really do. I swear. I just really get tired of seeing so many "articles" and "tutorials" and "code examples" that are complete and utter shit written by people who claim to be "experts". Maybe I'm being a bit harsh. Let me give you an example.

It's a good example of a real problem with PHP. The Annotated PHP manual, which allows user-submitted comments at the bottom of each page, offers a great deal of otherwise undocumented information about PHP programming, but it also contains plain bad example code and misinformation.

The example Revjim talks about is building web sites with good URLs. Unfortunately, this web site is hosted using Zeus, which isn't nearly as versatile as Apache (or Java servlets or the wonderful Cocoon for that matter) when it comes to constructing friendly URLs (PATH_INFO just plain doesn't work with their PHP configuration, and there doesn't appear to be a user-configurable equivalent to Apache's Action and SetHandler.)

And here is a diagram of the many forks of Thatware, a PHP Slash clone. It just seems so silly.

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