Who makes their living with PHP?

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Post by kcomer »

I make my living with PHP. I work for a large non-profit group coding custom tracking and reporting software using php and mysql. We hope to start selling it by summer next year. For now, it's all in-house only software.
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Post by lo-fi »

i also make make my livin' as a php'er with ocasional flash programming, still starting though :D
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Only a hobbiyist at the moment. (Gimme a break I'm 15) but hopefully my future lies somewhere in a programming field.
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Post by DeGauss »

I worked for a major new media company (now defunct, as you would expect) and a national museum as a PHP developer and web designer.

To be honest, the best way to get a job doing PHP is to get a regular joe typist job and wow them at how you've suddenly made their job process a lot quicker and tidier by implementing a php interface.

Now i have a hugeass office and more time than i could possible want all for developing php stuff.

I'm currently working on prime factors and artificial intelligence with php... No real reasoning behind it other than it sounds neat.
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Post by Stoker »

Part of my daytime job is integration of production and process monitoring (control systems, PLC, MMI etc) into intranet and ERP systems, I estimate 20 to 30 % of my time is spent on PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Btrieve (ODBC).

In my night-time hobby-company I spend 75% of my time with PHP :)
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Post by puckeye »

I also work as a php'er in a small (4 employees) web design company where I'm the sole programmer...

And like it was said quite often in the above replies I'm also trying my hand on personnal out of the office work and it's starting to look like something good... No money yet but my name's starting to circulate in the region and since there doesn't seem to be much experienced phpers around my chances are good.

At the office I'm there mainly to maintain our newpapers sites, each site has it's own php interface to update the articles, about half the updates are now directly done by the journalists, the other is still done here by one of our part timers.

Anyway I do hope to make it on my own someday but for now I know I can count on my current job to round out the month's end...

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Post by daven »

PHP is my primary source of income. Full time job and all that. Ahh, the code mines. I do some other stuff on the side (run concerts, teach martial arts, model) but my boss has this annoying tendency to want me to write lots of code for him.
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Post by McGruff »

I've worked in the past as webmaster for an online shop with a purely static site. I'd spend hours changing prices by hand every week...

Now I'm teaching myself some php and, with the ability to create dynamic sites, I'm hoping to earn enough to buy a private island and plot to take over the world.

Muhahahahahaha
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Umm....McGruff.....not to be mean or anything, but how much crack do you smoke a day?
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Post by McGruff »

[..strokes white cat with manic grin..]

You'll be first for the shark tank mate.
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Post by Stoker »

hey... Bill & Steve did it, why can't he? :P
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