Welcome!

AJAX & REA Authors: John Ryan, Fuat Kircaali, Chris Fleck, Marek Miesiac, Loraine Antrim

Related Topics: AJAX & REA, AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo, Web 2.0

AJAX & REA: Article

"PHP Drives Web 2.0," Says Zend's Andi Gutmans, "And PHP AJAX Projects Are Mushrooming"

Delivering the desktop experience in the browser is the main goal of Rich Internet Applications
By RIA News Desk
Article Rating:
March 26, 2007 12:15 PM EDT
Reads:
 20,892
Andi Gutmans (pictured), who leads the PHP Collaboration Project and Zend product strategy and has been a leading contributor to PHP since 1997 and spearheaded the object-oriented improvements for PHP 5, explained at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East how PHP is a cornerstone technology in developing AJAX-enabled Web sites.

"PHP powers some of the most demanding Web 2.0 sites including Yahoo! and Facebook," Gutman reminded the audience of the first ever "Web 2.0" track at AJAXWorld.

One of the reasons for PHP's ease-of-use has been its two-tier deployment model, Gutmans explained. Now, due to the nature of AJAX-enabled Web applications, he said, these apps are becoming three-tier applications which has additional challenges.

Gutmans not only covered some of the PHP features which make it a successful back-end for AJAX applications, but also covered some of the exciting work which is going on - both in the Zend Framework and in Eclipse - which are going to provide much better frameworks and tools for building such applications.

Published March 26, 2007 – Reads 20,892
Copyright © 2007 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.

About RIA News Desk

Ever since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, SYS-CON's RIA News Desk has been covering every aspect of Rich Internet Applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking RIA news, please send it to RIA@sys-con.com to share your product and company news coverage with AJAXWorld readers.

Comments (0)

Share your thoughts on this story.

Add your comment
You must be signed in to add a comment. Sign-in | Register

In accordance with our Comment Policy, we encourage comments that are on topic, relevant and to-the-point. We will remove comments that include profanity, personal attacks, racial slurs, threats of violence, or other inappropriate material that violates our Terms and Conditions, and will block users who make repeated violations. We ask all readers to expect diversity of opinion and to treat one another with dignity and respect.