Happy 10th PHP

drew010

Don't know if anyone noticed, but today (June 8th 2005) is exactly 10 years since PHP Version 1.0 was released.
We should all be thankful to Rasmus for creating it all that time ago and making it free, and also the the numerous developers who have made it what it is today, and a big thanks to the Zend creators, Andi and Zeev.

Jason_Batten

*wipes tear from eye and claps

Oh! *sniff, that was beautiful!

vaaaska

Do the archives go back that far? Whoa...

dalecosp

Thanks for the pointer, drew010!

Rasmus: thanks for getting PHP off the ground! Wonder if ya thought it would prove so popular? Oh well, I could Google® for the answer, but then, it'd be better to use search.yahoo.com, right? Keep on keepin' on with O.S.!

Zeev, Andi: although it's likely a [man]sin/man (because we know all [man]min/man [man]is_finite/man), maybe we should gather [man]round/man and $_GET [man]down/man on the [man]floor/man to [man]echo/man our thanks for the [man]pow/man you have provided us poor web geeks . . . thanks for Zend, the Engine, and the Platform, and Studio, and many bugs squashed in 10 years...

To everyone involved: thanks for php.net, the manual, SOAP, CURL, the CLI (ooh, love that!), sockets, OOP support in v5, etc., etc. In short, for making PHP Rock!

All right youse guys, get on the bandwagon and sign the thread . . . I'll send it to the appropriate mail addies later today . ..

Elizabeth

<--- starts pouring the free beer for the biggest PHParty ever. Thankfully, Molson supports our cause by coding their site in PHP.

To the PHP Gurus: thanks for giving all of us an alternative to the norm, and allowing us to revel in "the dark side" 🙂

Now, who's first?

BuzzLY

/me starts up a round of 872 Bottles of Beer on the Wall...

Drink up!!!

🙂

leatherback

Hey Buzz,

Now we know where the buzz comes from.. 872 bottles of beer.. I asked for 1000 bottles, and got shouted at 🙁

BuzzLY

Yeah, sorry... I had to put that check in. When I first wrote if for the contest, people were putting in outrageous numbers, and causing the server to take a load off for a while. My ISP didn't like that 🙂

At least the program still spells out the number you enter -- try putting in 43 bazillion! 😃

dalecosp

Well, the party's started. Here in the Central US, it's after 7 p.m., so off goes a mail to the guys at Zend* and Mr. Lerdorf. Of course, he's probably in California, so he might even still be at work!

Thanks again for PHP, dudes! From some folks who've benefitted from your work, and even some starting-to-get famous authors of a book on the subject!

Well, I sent it to Zeev's publicly available email, IYKWIM. And asked him if he'd forward it to Andi. What a cheap jerk I am . . . maybe, just maybe, they'll see this sometime next year . . . :rolleyes:

Moonglobe

😃

/partay :p

Weedpacket

The paper hats and strumpets are on me!

BuzzLY

Can we put butter on our strumpets?

leatherback

Originally posted by BuzzLY
Can we put butter on our strumpets?

Butter? Where does that come from?

Hey buzz, a friend of mine is having his birthday soon. Is this page going to stayu: Can I offer him 999 bottle of beer at least?

dalecosp

Originally posted by leatherback
Butter? Where does that come from?

<?php

$ingredients = array("milk", "cream", "salt");

function go_up() {
   raise_handle();
}
function go_down() {
   lower_handle();
}
function churn($ingredients) {
   $pour_in=implode('',$ingredients);
   while (!$butter) {
      if ($up) {
         go_down();
      } elseif ($down) {
         go_up();
      }
      if ($ct>1250) {
         $ct=0;
         $butter=peek_into_churn();
      }
   $ct++;
   }
   return true;
}

$makin_butter=churn($ingredients);
?>

As you can see, it is a rather long, repetitive and somewhat boring process. Perhaps we had best leave it to the strumpets . . .

leatherback

if($makin_butter)
  {
   echo "Anybody hungry?";
  }
else
  {
   echo "Somebody has tooo much time!";
  }

BuzzLY

Originally posted by leatherback
Hey buzz, a friend of mine is having his birthday soon. Is this page going to stayu: Can I offer him 999 bottle of beer at least?

J

Absolutely. That page has been there for a while, and I don't have any plans to move it.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by BuzzLY
Can we put butter on our strumpets?

I don't see why not; but wouldn't they get soggy?

vaaaska

Let's bbq some ASP.net and MS manuals.