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Largest / Most Commercial PHP driven sites
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 4:37 pm
by Burrito
What the largest PHP based web sites you all have seen?
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 4:40 pm
by Luke
php.net and Zend.com
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:25 pm
by nickvd
... devnetwork.net ??
Doesn't yahoo use php?
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:28 pm
by Luke
they use it, but I believe the majority of their sites are built with other technologies.
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:56 pm
by Trenchant
neopets.com
I remember they use to use PHP. I'm pretty sure they still do.
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:23 pm
by MrPotatoes
i remember hearing that flickr is completely PHP
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:34 am
by RobertGonzalez
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.
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:36 am
by seodevhead
Yahoo?
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:33 am
by Burrito
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?
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:16 pm
by timvw
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...
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:19 pm
by neophyte
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
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:03 pm
by nickvd
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)
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:56 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I know sourceforge uses PHP. I think all of the OSTG sites use it as a matter of fact.
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:00 pm
by Chris Corbyn
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
I was about type something interesting but I forgot what it was

Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:19 pm
by John Cartwright
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
I was about type something interesting but I forgot what it was

Maybe you shouldn't get drunk and surf the forums
Just joking of course
