Since apparently, I was the first person to ever publicly spill the beans on HipHop, I need to do penance by clarifying what HipHop is and what it means for PHP. For those of you who don’t have time to read the rest, here is what HipHop for PHP is:
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There’s an almost infinite number of ways to create a photo gallery with Drupal. I’ve tried many different approaches but never really been all that happy with the results. I’ve finally found a solution worth sharing/repeating. Here’s what we’ll be creating using Views, CCK and the Flickr module.
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Yesterday, I released Solar 1.0.0beta3. You can see the very short change log here. Special thanks to “kalkin” for committing a series of fixes and improvements.
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There’s been lots and lots of discussion regarding the Facebook “Hyper PHP” release of HipHop for PHP. This new technology is an in-production converter for PHP that takes PHP code, converts it into C++ code, and creates a complete binary that can be run on a server natively. Facebook claims improvements of up to 50%, and their model represents a shift in thinking about scripting languages like P
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My apologies to Ron Burgundy for the title of the post, but I’m just a fan of the wisest man to ever live. As Marco and Illia and countless others have said, unless you don’t work with PHP or were in a coma, Facebook released HipHop for PHP , it’s open source, it’s awesome, it makes you go fast.
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Today Facebook revealed what they have been working behind the scenes for a long time. In a nutshell, HipHop is aimed at improving PHP’s performance by converting PHP code to C++ and then compiling it with g++, thus allowing Facebook to keep up with their growth with fewer servers.
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Though precise statistics are difficult to obtain, PHP is undeniably a top choice as a Website building language. Since October 2009, the TIOBE Programming Community Index has PHP holding third place -- behind Java and C -- among programming languages overall. Regardless of the exact extent of PHP's usage, you need only consider that Web sites such as Facebook -- which manages millions of users a
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This morning Facebook announced, as had been rumored for several weeks, a new, faster, implementation of PHP. To someone, like me, who loves dynamic languages and virtual machines this type of announcement is pretty exciting, after all, if they have some new techniques for optimizing dynamic languages they can almost certainly be ported to a language I care about. However, because of everything I
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PHP is great for writing quick dynamic stuff for your website. Just a couple of lines of code can be written in 2 mins to insert or retrieve data from db. But with ease there is also some pain… the downside is that each request for a dynamic page can trigger multiple db queries, processing of output, and finally formatting to display on browser. This process can eventually be slow on larger sites
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Mysql Wrapper is, as the name specifies, a small library consisting of php code (Object Oriented), that allows you to interact with the mysql database in an abstract manner. Meaning, that you can send queries to the mysql databse just by a single function call and thats it! No worries of query errors or any related issue.
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In the need for speed, Facebook had been working under the hood to boost PHP runtime to crazy levels which were not possible before. Facebook has now Open sourced the underlying code, as predicted.
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One of the key values at Facebook is to move fast. For the past six years, we have been able to accomplish a lot thanks to rapid pace of development that PHP offers. As a programming language, PHP is simple. Simple to learn, simple to write, simple to read, and simple to debug. We are able to get new engineers ramped up at Facebook a lot faster with PHP than with other languages, which allows us
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The reported Facebook release of a PHP compiler optimized for high-volume transaction services (like Facebook) is yet more evidence the company takes its open source responsibilities seriously.
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This small PHP function lets you calculate the dir size entering each sub dir and making the sum of the filesize of every file contained. Returns an array of two values: size and numbers of file. The second function shows how format the size in a more readable way (with abbreviation MB, KB, GB).
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This small php function is a recursive remove directory that remove non empty dirs recursively. It enters every directory, removes every file starting from the given path.
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