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Largest / Most Commercial PHP driven sites

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What the largest PHP based web sites you all have seen?
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php.net and Zend.com
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... devnetwork.net ?? ;)

Doesn't yahoo use php?
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they use it, but I believe the majority of their sites are built with other technologies.
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neopets.com

I remember they use to use PHP. I'm pretty sure they still do.
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i remember hearing that flickr is completely PHP
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Google is hopelessly lacking in finding this information. I have been looking on and off since yesterday and can find no really good information. I did however find a couple of links on how much the biggest Google AdSense publishers are making. Dayum, they are bringing in some dough.
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Yahoo?
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my colleague asked me this question and my response was that I know I have seen a credit card or bank web site that uses it, but I can't remember for the life of me what it was.

I thought I'd throw it out here to you all...but the lack of sites you are finding is.... disturbing?

what does that say about our beloved language? That it's more for garage-coders or gateway sites for delivering other open source programs?
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Burrito wrote:my colleague asked me this question
Digg is probably one of the larger sites running on php...
Burrito wrote: I thought I'd throw it out here to you all...but the lack of sites you are finding is.... disturbing?
Actually i couldn't care less. As long as the websites generates valid (x)html i (and my http user-agent) am (are) happy.

Most websites that i know have a mix of languages to generate their content...
Burrito wrote: what does that say about our beloved language? That it's more for garage-coders or gateway sites for delivering other open source programs?
Imho it doesn't say very much about the language itself.

I can imagine that php gives you a lot of flexiblity (and with this comes also a large arsenal of ways to shoot yourself in the foot... which seems to happen just too much...)

Personally i find the fact that there are simply no two l/wamp installations that are the same the weakest part about the platform...
(eg)With Java i know what to expect if the webserver supports a certain 'Web Container' version...
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How bout this site:

http://www.upi.com/

or

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/

or I believe these guys use PHP as well as other technologies.

http://sourceforge.net
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You can't always tell that they're using php... if they're using mod_rewrite to provide clean url's then you will have no idea that they're running php.

I've also heard of sites camouflaging the language they're using (rewrite all .php urls to .cfm for example)
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I know sourceforge uses PHP. I think all of the OSTG sites use it as a matter of fact.
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I know there aren't many (any?) in the fortune 1000. PHP is however perhaps the most widely used web development language around.

Java is probably on par.

Not getting into that debate though :P

I was about type something interesting but I forgot what it was :evil:
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d11wtq wrote:I know there aren't many (any?) in the fortune 1000. PHP is however perhaps the most widely used web development language around.

Java is probably on par.

Not getting into that debate though :P

I was about type something interesting but I forgot what it was :evil:
Maybe you shouldn't get drunk and surf the forums Image



Just joking of course :D
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