Re: [PHP4BETA] Article on PHP4 @ webmonkey

Eli Marmor wrote: > > > P.S. Is is true that PHP passed the 1 mil. limit of hosts running it? oops, s/is/it/ > If you count *DOMAINS* declaring use of PHP in their HTTP headers > (i.e. excluding CGI-PHP, and on the other hand - including all the > false virtual domains etc. (I have many...)), the number reached > 1,114,021 on November (i.e. about 1.2 million now), or 357,581 IPs. BTW, I was thinking what would be the best convention for php users to provide a means to let people know their site runs php, either module or cgi binary. My simple convention is a info.php at root level containing phpinfo(). If everyone would do the same, or would enforce another convenient option maybe the numbers will be even more accurate. > More important: PHP passed FrontPage Server Extensions, and is now > the most popular Apache module. I don't have exact statistics about > ASP, but PHP is now the only serious competitor for it (in numbers, > of course; I don't compare them in functionality...). err, FrontPage, what's that? ;-) > And another important number: The next survey of NetCraft will show > a yet another jump of Apache, probably at the expense of Netscape > and IIS. well I read a thread @ slashdot about continuous growth of Apache and stuff and the critics will always be that <<a lot of stations included in the survey present only post-install-congratulation page >>. What I think are the most interesting/important statistics are *who* is using it (like php.net/sites.php3) and how well it scalled in ppl's projects. regards & congrats to PHP Dev. Team :-) [ & sorry for the cross post(s) to php3 list ] -- CIMPOESU Teodor, Web Programmer @ DIGICOM S.A. Bucharest, Romania @ Internet, site development @ teo@digiro.net , +(401)-330.47.28 official home page ~ http://www.digiro.net/ Internet web page ~ http://internet.digiro.net/