Re: [PHP] Hello

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Alan Feuerbacher <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/28/2017 9:24 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Alan Feuerbacher <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I subscribed to this list a few days ago. I thought there would be a lot
>>> of
>>> traffic, but I've seen none. Is this list active?
>>
>>
>> All the cool kids are using django and python. For the unfortunates
>> who still have to use PHP (like me) most questions are going to stack
>> overflow.
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I haven't heard of django, but I know a smattering of python. I'm not very
> experienced with any language besides C and a couple of internal-only
> industrial languages I had to use when I was still working. Now I'm
> expanding my Linux skills.
>
> I take it PHP is somewhat outdated. Why?
>
> I wanted to learn PHP for a specific purpose: extracting specific data from
> an existing XML page. After doing some reading of books and on the Net, I
> thought that PHP would do the trick. It does, but it's been a struggle.
>
> I know that PHP is mainly for Web applications, but I'm not doing any of
> that.

I am not saying there isn't any, but I personally do not know of any
new websites being built with PHP. Any new sites that I know of are
being done with django or flask. But there are a lot of existing PHP
sites out there, enough to keep us all very busy.