{"id":1453,"date":"2007-04-28T23:55:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T03:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/28\/php-becoming-mainstream\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T23:59:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T03:59:16","slug":"php-becoming-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/28\/php-becoming-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Becoming Mainstream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/php_becoming_ma.html\">Tim O&rsquo;Reilly<\/a> says that the <em>PHP &amp; MySQL For Dummies<\/em> is now the top selling book for that language, so therefore PHP is becoming mainstream (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2007\/april#sat-28-php\">John Gruber<\/a>). I&rsquo;m confused. I thought PHP 3 was popular, with many hosts including support for it. PHP 4 was definitely mainstream, by just about any definition I can think of. Now PHP <em>5<\/em> is already almost three years old. I guess I don&rsquo;t know what &ldquo;mainstream&rdquo; means.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim O&rsquo;Reilly says that the PHP &amp; MySQL For Dummies is now the top selling book for that language, so therefore PHP is becoming mainstream (via John Gruber). I&rsquo;m confused. I thought PHP 3 was popular, with many hosts including support for it. PHP 4 was definitely mainstream, by just about any definition I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}