[Wylug-discuss] Commercial grade PHP applications

[Glenn Glidden]

Thanks for this Robert.  I think I'm satisfied that PHP is a viable option.

I've coded before, just not done anything with PHP so thought I'd look at
various schools processes that can be rendered in PHP but also considering
wider aspects.  It'll just be a single person project for a while though.

Glenn 

-----Original Message-----
From: wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk
[mailto:wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Robert Burrell
Donkin
Sent: 30 June 2012 07:51
To: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] Commercial grade PHP applications

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Glenn Glidden <glenn at glidden.org.uk>
wrote:

<snip>

> Maybe the answer is that there are these products that are used by big 
> organisations

Would you describe Facebook as big?

I suppose it depends on what you mean by big. PHP is core to several rich
and successful companies

> (Open University now use Moodle as well I believe) so just look at how
they do it.

PHP can be abused with very little training

AIUI Facebook uses top CompSci graduates to code in PHP and very tight
Agile->lean self-organising teams with TDD, BDD and DevOps. (Though
it's hard to be sure since FBs a very tight ship)

IIRC there are folks over in NorthWest with PHP-based schools admin
software, and some strong developers

However, if you're looking to learn a language and develop a school admin
system I strongly recommend coding in Ruby on Rails (and I mostly work in
Java)

Robert

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