Re: PHP Dev Facts

On Thursday 16 October 2008 6:14:18 pm Nathan Rixham wrote: > Evening All, > > I'd be /really/ interested to know who uses what! > > *Procedural or OOP?* Right tool for the job. I'm comfortable in either. Most of my work these days is in a large open source procedural framework, but I'm slowly working more and more OOP into it. :-) > *Dev OS* Kubuntu Hardy. > *Dev PHP Version* 5.2.4 > *Live Server OS* For my personal stuff, hosted FreeBSD. At my company, we use a web host that's running either RHEL or Fedora. (I honestly forget which.) > *Live Server PHP Version* 5.2.6 > *Which HTTP Server Software (+version)?* Apache 2 in most places, but I think a few may be running 1.3 for no good reason. > *IDE / Dev Environment* Zend Studio 5.5 is the only IDE I can actually say I like. More recent versions of Eclipse / Eclipse PDT at least don't suck as much as they used to, which is the only good thing I can say about any of 'em. > *Preferred Framework(s)?* 98% of my PHP is written on, for, and with Drupal. :-) > *Do you Unit Test?* For internal framework stuff (where I can do proper TDD), extensively. For day to day for clients, not all that much. Most of that work is not really unit-testable to begin with, and functional tests are considerably harder to do at this point in Drupal. (Although that is improving.) > *Most Used Internal PHP Class* PDO, probably, since I build the new Drupal DB layer on top of it. However, I am a huge huge fan of ArrayAccess, simply for its cool factor. > *Preferred OS CMS* Drupal (surprise surprise). > *Anything else you use frequently in you're PHP'ing that's worth > mentioning:* Don't underestimate the power of associative arrays. You can get some really deep, really powerful, really fast data structures with a little care and an embracing of associative arrays. > ps: I'm not asking for any kind of research project, just interested and > interested to know what's most common + might learn something/find some > new tools/toys! > > pps: will reply myself as well but if I do here it'll make your > intertwined replies messy! > > Many Regards > > Nathan -- Larry Garfield larry@garfieldtech.com