Tipjar in PHP…
rzwitserloot posted in startup, programming on March 17th, 2006

Spent last night learning PHP. A decidedly unsexy language in that it doesn’t introduce any new concepts whatsoever, it’s proven to be even easier to pick up compared to python or even javascript.

Fortunately a lot of features introduced in PHP5 allows pushing the language quite far before you hit the unmaintainable dregs usually contributed to PHP-based projects that outgrew their language.

Right now I’m just building ORM on-the-fly, creating PHP classes that do the rough SQL work. It’s not much work at all, and any fancy dbase manipulation work for optimization purposes can always be added in later without having to learn anything but SQL which I mostly already know.

Any project that fits securely in a LAMP stack and works decidedly top-down in nature (most projects are but something like writely probably isn’t) can be built with this stuff without too much fuss. And for small/simple projects that’s really all that matters, I guess.