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PHP awarded Programming Language of 2004

PHP has been awarded the Programming Language of 2004, according to the TIOBE Programming Community Index.
This index uses information collected from the popular search engines, and are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors.

I am a PHP fan, I know PHP is often used, but you generally hear more about Java, ASP.NET and such in the meanstream press. So PHP just happens without anyone making a fuss about it 😉
Take a peek at the graph. PHP is now in the same realm as VB + C# together.

But hey, I’m not saying one is better than the other! Use whatever is suitable for the needs of an application, and of course what you prefer and are comfortable with. I know fine things can be made with VB.Net, C#, and Java. I just like PHP because it allows me to quickly do things, and it’s close to C (which is where my origins lie).

As for MySQL APIs, they all have excellent support. I’ve made a little list of the most popular ones (I know there are many more):
– C: MYSQL C API
– Java: Connector/J
– .NET: Connector/Net
– PHP 4: PHP MySQL extension
– PHP 5: PHP “Improved” MySQL extension
– Perl: DBD::mysql module
– Python: MySQLdb
– ODBC: Connector/ODBC

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