{"id":567,"date":"2005-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/06\/09\/502\/"},"modified":"2005-06-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T22:00:00","slug":"502","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/06\/09\/502\/","title":{"rendered":"A Decade of PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it’s PHP’s 10th birthday today, and a lot of people wrote<\/a> about their story with PHP; so here’s mine. It’s not that interesting as I’m a mere user of PHP (having contributed nothing but a few bug reports):<\/p>\n

In 1998, a friend showed me the php.net homepage – we were impressed by PHP3’s functionality and database connectivity, and by the unbelievably useful online manual.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, I went to a job interview – they said it was OK not to know PHP yet, they’d train me on the job. And they did! Thies C. Arntzen<\/a> was my boss, and it was absolutely great being taught PHP – and programming in general – by him.<\/p>\n

In some ways our company<\/a>’s use of PHP was different from the mainstream: Even back in 1998, with PHP3, we were building a commercial, relatively large (and expensive…) web-based application, we were using the PHP CLI for background (daemon) and batch processes, doing XML processing, object oriented programming, and running on Oracle. And we still do so now.<\/p>\n

It’s been seven good years during which PHP helped feed my family, and I’m still surprised all this is possible with „just a scripting language“… A big thank you to the PHP Group!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it’s PHP’s 10th birthday today, and a lot of people wrote about their story with PHP; so here’s mine. It’s not that interesting as I’m a mere user of PHP (having contributed nothing but a few bug reports): In 1998, a friend showed me the php.net homepage – we were impressed by PHP3’s functionality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}