Paul M. Jones

> Those standards are are a very accurate representation of the way the best, most popular open source PHP code is being written. PHP-FIG members have repeatedly cautioned[1][2][3][4] that the PSRs (notably PSR-2) are not a set of best practices, but merely a survey of commonalities of PHP-FIG member projects. Even then, several member projects do not, and have stated they will not, implement PSR-1 and/or PSR-2. Treating them as the best or most accurate representation of how PHP is being developed at large is exactly the wrong thing to take away from the PSR process. [1]: http://www.php-fig.org/faq/ [2]: http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/2420 [3]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/php-fig/TRpoq0kdrZk/OkyD-J4uz8sJ [4]: Matthew Weier O'Phinney's comment on http://brian.moonspot.net/php-coding-standards

His assertions are not confidence inspiring: http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=413#comment-410123

Yep, I'd expect it to halve the requests per second for every test. Paul Jones (created the Solar framework) periodically releases some pretty authoritative benchmarks for the major PHP frameworks, and here's what he has to say on the topic: http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=421

a) Starting with tutorials is a logical first step, however they may be some bad advice in there. Writing some simple applications or pages to accomplish stuff is good to get a handle on the breadth of built-in functionality. Please also note that PHP 5 has much better OO functionality than PHP 4. PHP 4 is end-of-lifed, however CodeIgniter is still compatible with PHP 4, thus limiting it in some respects. I wouldn't focus on too much open source PHP apps, much of them are kind of sloppy-the frameworks will probably be a better code base to look at. Just like any other language you can write sloppy code, but you can also exert some effort and make a well-organized codebase. The last thing I would recommend is to read about PHP security issues. (Disclaimer, this is my own site) http://flourishlib.com/docs/Security has an overview of security issues, however some of it is focused on using Flourish to fix issues. b) I would recommend looking at: - PHPEd (commercial, http://nusphere.com) <- I use this - Netbeans 6.5 (open source, http://netbeans.org) - Aptana with the PHP 1.0 plugin (open source/commercial, http://aptana.com/php) Komodo (commercial, http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/) was alright but I haven't tried the new 5.0 release. Eclipse PDT 1.x (http://eclipse.org/pdt/) was ok, but very much a pain to configure-I hear 2.0 is coming out soon. c) In terms of frameworks, here are a few of the big ones in addition to CodeIgniter, however if…

Intellectually humble people is a rarity these days, In contrast you have an abundance of [1]Intellectual bullies which are very popular toxic crowd in places like twitter/reddit and sadly even on HN. [1]http://paul-m-jones.com/post/2008/11/07/patterns-of-intellectual-bulli…

I expounded on the gift-giving theme as well, some years ago, and am glad to see I was not alone: http://paul-m-jones.com/post/2018/12/11/open-source-and-squeegee-men/