Re: PHP evangelism tools : where we are

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 04:16:35AM +0000, Philip Olson wrote: > > Dave Mertens <dave@zyprexia.com> wrote: > > > I also heared people say the Google soap API was written in PHP, but somehow > > > i can't believe it. Google isn't using PHP on their site, so why should > > > they > > > use php for their soap API and not their regular C/C++ interface?? > > I've not checked around much but the toolbar.google.com site > uses some PHP. For example: > > http://toolbar.google.com/whatsnew.php3 Maybe i wasn't accurate enough. A toolbar isn't doing any searches, same with their support pages. But their soap interface is returning result from a search. A current weak point of PHP is the XML capabilities. Their isn't native soap support, remark on both points: domxml is using libxml2 and native soap is coming, both both are experimental. Because the current soap interface of PHP (in pear) is not native, and because of that slow, i can't believe that they are using it. Because everybody knows that speed is 'the' trademark of Google. (Their no-nonsense approach is also working ..) Theirfor i can't believe that Google is using PHP in their core-business.. But maybe I've been wrong and has Google wrote an (internal) PHP extension for their search engine and they give back result with PHP ;-) (You never know with those guys) -- With best regards, Dave Mertens, Development Manager dmertens@ism.nl Innovative Solutions in Media BV Schiekade 101 3033 BG Rotterdam, Netherlands Tel. +31-10-2436060 Fax. +31-10-2436066