Re: The future of PHP - PHP Pattern Repository

Michael Kimsal wrote > Tell me more about your thoughts on this please. One of the strengths of PHP is the gentle learning curve. This means that a lot of people are using it as their first programming language, and a lot of the traffic on the lists, and the articles on the PHP sites, are at a pretty basic level. Nothing wrong with this, but it may give some the impression that PHP is not a serious tool. If you lurk on Java/Ruby/Python/Rebol lists, as I sometimes do, there is a lot of higher level discussion about how to get the best out of the language, in architectural and design terms. I thought that a good way to focus this kind of discussion would be debating and documenting design and architecture patterns as applied to PHP. I would have thought that this would be stimulating for the gurus, and beginners like myself would learn a lot from watching the process. And because the PHP solution will often be much simpler than the Java/C++ style solutions, it would be a good way to demonstrate the power of the language to anyone considering adopting it for serious work. Here is a paper documenting some procedural/relational patterns that might give a sense of what I am suggesting: http://www/geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6888/prpats.htm Hope this is useful Geoff Caplan