Xu Wei Jie Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Hi all, I am a student from the National University of Singapore. I want to know more about what kind of complexity all of you faces when developing PHP systems or infrastructures. PHP is an extensible language. However, it does have its limitations and moreover like any other languages, we face issues like code complexity, maintainability and re usability. I wish to poll problems and case studies faced by the PHP community when developing intricate and complicated systems that involves a high amount of "lines of code". What are the things PHP cannot offer you? What would you think PHP can do better? If PHP were to have regenerative mechanisms within it that helps to reduce code complexity, would you use it? How would you think it will benefit you? weijie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin777 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Things which have many lines of php (and html ) code: Forums, Shopping carts, online communities and CMS such as Joomla regenerative mechanisms to help reduce code would be ok, but not really needed I don't think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 However, it does have its limitations and moreover like any other languages, we face issues like code complexity, maintainability and re usability. As you say, this is with any language. It's how programming works. To get something to react in specific ways according to specific input, code needs to be complex. As for code re-usability, well classes are ideal for this. Creating classes allows code to be re-used, and turns PHP into a more object oriented style of programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xu Wei Jie Posted October 27, 2008 Author Share Posted October 27, 2008 Have a look at this paper. http://portfolio.lighterday.com/files/urop_report.pdf (right click and save link as to dl the file) The url has a bit of problems. I am not sure what the new language PHP+ can do that PHP can't besides reducing LOC. Thus, I am a bit bewildered. Let me have your opinions weijie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 This first post strikes me as homework. Anyway, I will repost later with something constructive ;p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 This first post strikes me as homework. Anyway, I will repost later with something constructive ;p. He said it was homework. He's doing polls and case studies. It's not like "do my homework plz". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 I'm a student from <my high school>. I have a question. That doesn't mean the question is homework. But yes, he was most likely telling us that for us to infer that he is doing it as homework.... Useful answer coming soon.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xu Wei Jie Posted October 31, 2008 Author Share Posted October 31, 2008 Hi all, I am doing this for research. It is quite open ended as to what I can gather from all of you since I am working on the limitations of php and trying to make sense of how php can be further improved to benefit the php community. Thus, I hope to have your valuable inputs with regards to your field of experiences and comment on the urop report which I gave the link to above. Hopefully, we can have an interesting discussion. Thanks. regards, weijie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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