PHP Forum passes 40k posts

[jatar_k]

Well, another milestone reached. It seems to be a very busy place these days and getting busier all the time.

So here's to new users and old for making our little corner of WebmasterWorld what it is.

Also to my comods who have made my life much easier since they volunteered to help out.

[dmmh]

ok, Ill admit it, I spammed my ass off to get it to pass the mark :D

[Timotheos]

Congrats, especially to the hard working mods! Seems like we just passed 30k and now it's 40k. Wow!

So can we change the forum description now?

PHP has grown huge and now challenges Perl as the new defacto cgi scripting language.

Sorry, just a pet peeve I guess. I think PHP is there now. Based on these surveys [securityspace.com] on installed modules PHP [securityspace.com] isn't playing second fiddle to Perl [securityspace.com] anymore.

(No scripting war / flame posts please)

Tim

[ergophobe]

Funny, PHP had -10% growth last month.

Of course, the figures on the first link are supposedly for January 23005, so there's probably some slack in there ;-)

I noticed that the % of servers running PHP has surpassed the historic high of Perl. Given that the number of servers has increased a lot too, the absolute numbers must be even further apart.

[dreamcatcher]

A lot of the local colleges are now adding PHP to their curiculum for next term such is the vast interest that this fantastic scripting language creates. The one tutor told me their phones never stop ringing for PHP courses.

:)

[coopster]

<pre> 
<?php 
$stats = array [php.net]( 
  array [php.net](15000, '11,29,2003'), 
  array [php.net](20000, '03,01,2004'), 
  array [php.net](30000, '08,25,2004'), 
  array [php.net](40000, '02,02,2005') 
); 
$end = count [php.net]($stats) - 1; 
for ($i = 0; $i < $end; $i++) { 
  list [php.net]($month, $day, $year) = explode [php.net](',', $stats[$i][1]); 
  $from = mktime [php.net](0,0,0,$month,$day,$year); 
  list [php.net]($month, $day, $year) = explode [php.net](',', $stats[$i+1][1]); 
  $to = mktime [php.net](0,0,0,$month,$day,$year); 
  $days = round [php.net](($to - $from) / (60*60*24)); 
  printf [php.net]("%6d posts in %3d days; per day avg: %3d\n", 
     $stats[$i+1][0] - $stats[$i][0],  
     $days,  
     round [php.net](($stats[$i+1][0] - $stats[$i][0]) / $days)); 
} 
?> 
</pre>

Data Source [webmasterworld.com]

[jatar_k]

hehe, nice coop

this change makes it easier to read

printf("<p>%6d posts in %3d days; per day avg: %3d\n",

;)

[brendan3eb]

woo-hoo! php all the way. I don't know much about php's background and its competition with other languages, but I've noticed that most schools just have java for their computer courses. Anyways, thanks mods and other members for always helping me out, I would be crouched under my desk shivering without this forum :)

[volatilegx]

Congrats, jatar_k, on 40k posts in your great forum :)

Dan

[coopster]

>> this change makes it easier to read
>> <p>

only if you didn't copy the <pre> tags surrounding the code, silly ;)

jatar_k, I think I said it at 30k posts, but I'll say it again -- thanks for your contribution to the PHP Forum and the community here. And to all the members: the level of friendliness here is reaching an even greater high. It's cool to see everyone pitching in and helping out when they can. Sure makes this a great place.

[mincklerstraat]

My thanks to all and especially the mods for keeping this forum the fun place it is.

[ergophobe]

Jatar_K and coopster - you guys are amazing.

Some days I look in at all of Adam's posts and wonder - does he not work or does not sleep? It's got to be one or the other and I'm afraid it's the latter! I'd be surprised if there's another moderator on WebmasterWorld who contributes so many posts to his own forum. It's one of the things that really keeps it going here.

Tom

[jezra]

I used to get frustrated when I couldn't figure out a coding problem. I'd bang my head and pull out my hair. Then I found Webmasterworld and the PHP forum. Thanks for helping me slow down the balding process. A round of beers and cheers for the Mods.

[jatar_k]

>> slow down the balding process

lol, maybe that should be our new tagline for the forum...

WebmasterWorld PHP Forum
helping to slow down the balding process across the net

;)

[jezra]

->helping to slow down the balding process across the net

funny, I get spam related to that all the time. On a side note, today is my one year anniversary of joining webmaster world. I think I'll take the rest of the day off.