PHP Usage Survey

Made me think a little bit

[jatar_k]

There is a link on the php.net main page.

You can win a shirt, that might be cool. The questions were interesting. One that made me think a lot was "What is php lacking most" (or something to that effect).

I have run into one specific problem a few times, it lacks corporate credibility. It is definitely getting better but is something that still comes up more than I would like.

[bcolflesh]

I checked "Legitamacy" and "Case Studies" for the missing items - I'd love to have a page full of pie graphs and all the assorted bottom line stuff that reading-impaired suits like to wave around.

Regards,
Brent

[willybfriendly]

"I'd love to have a page full of pie graphs and all the assorted bottom line stuff that reading-impaired suits like to wave around"

Doesn't cost enough to impress the suits :)

Things that are free, open source or cheap have an extremely tough time establsihing credibility regardless of their quality.

WBF

[bcolflesh]

Sadly, you are absolutely correct...

Regards,
Brent

[vincevincevince]

php lacks caching on-the-fly compilation - good use of the modified date should allow php scripts to run fully compiled with no need for reparsing after the first run ;)

and they should be able to be saved in compiled form for redistribution in binary

[Clark]

Pie chart thing sounds like a good idea for website. Ask people to input what the x and y or blue and green should stand for, how much growth percentage they want, and it will spit out pie charts, growth charts, bar charts all ready to print out or output to PPS file and your presentation is ready :)

[daisho]

vinevincevince look into one of the many PHP Optimizers they do just that.