Can we Google bomb good PHP tutorials to the top?
stevephillips.me/blog/can-we-google-bomb-good...Posted Jul 6, 2012, 9:29 PM UTC
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No.
If you really think PHP tutorials suck, then build better ones. However writing a good tutorial is really damn hard. It needs to be well written, interesting, you need to be able to get the gist of it quickly whilst also offering depth, pretty and approachable, open to community improvements, as well as technically correct.
If someone where to build PHP tutorials that met all of those criteria, then I'm sure it would naturally rise to the top.
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I am getting so tired about these posts saying PHP suck, and then posts arguing why PHP doesn't suck, then responses to those posts saying it does suck, etc. :(
I for one love PHP and no matter what you tell me, I will still love using it because it gets the job done in a way I can understand.
Maybe my post came across wrong, I'm a huge fan of PHP as well. I just don't like all the back and forth posts lately. Yeah, we get it, some people hate it and some people love it. Get over it.
I personally think that a really good php dev can be a great dev in any other scripting language / programming language. Good OOD in php matches up with all the rest of the languages, and even surpasses many in code-base elegance. Just look at silex & the symfony 2 framework.
Who really cares? "poor php :,("
It's doing fine for it's bad reputation in some quarters. I guess some like eloquence others like to get things done.
PHP does suck in certain ways, just like HTML.
The real reason why I use both is simple though. They are quick to deploy. Sure, you could program a bulletproof and responsive app, but it could take so long to build that it is irrelevant by the tie you push it.
Sure it has quirks, but in 99.9% of all scripts you write, it is more than enough. Only once in a while will you ever have to change to a more efficient language on the most demanding scripts, but facebook in the earlier years did just fine being written in PHP (now they had tons of DB hacks, but the scripts were fine for the most part).
TLDR: Time is your biggest asset