RE: [PHP] Re: Protect PHP coding

At 06:30 05/08/2002, Mark Charette wrote:

Sure it was. You brought up the numbers to prove a point - to bolster your side with a rhetorical question, but the numbers are suspect; they don't tell us how _useful_ the classes are. In my case, the classes I looked at left too much to be desired to be useful, but perhaps other classes on there _are_ useful - I just didn't need them at the time. You've created a repository - for that I thank you - but to imply that the number of visits or downloads or subscribers = the number of people actually using the classes is disingenuous at best.

Sure Mark, he's not pretending to have 75,000 users. That's where the "30,000 *REAL* users" fit in. Try http://www.landonize.it/users/sterling if you have no idea what I'm talking about (I am cynical, of course). By the way, other than being a developer who's of course envious of Mr Lemos' tremendous success, Sterling is also the developer behind some of the most important XML work in PHP, CURL module, flash module, some compression modules and lots of all around work, and that's while being about half the age of Mr Lemos. Yes, he has a reason to be envy of Mr Lemos, no doubt.