Talk:LAMP
hits[edit]
Pcb21 wrote PHPerlthon only has a couple of O'Reilly hits - don't think it is really used
- That's right. 14 hits at Google is not very much. But I already wondered about this, when I added the word. I clearly could remember that there were quite a few articles and websites mentioning that word. So surfed a little bit around on the ONLamp site in the way back machine. From there I had a look on a page called the best of ONLamp, where I noticed why you and I didn't find much links on that subject: I spelled the name wrongly. They spelled it PHPherlthon which has clearly more hits than the pronounciation I used. Although I must admit, that the first hit a Google for PHPherlthon is one of my own web pages, maybe I took it in too much so that it became my default expansion of LAMP... (I hate it, when Google proposes me my own web pages, because usually I don't look for them at Google... ;-)
- But the word in fact seems to come from the very early ONLamp article on the Apache Toolbox from 2000 and propagated slowly through the web... But the article uses and explains PHPherlthon as if it is a common word.
- How do you see that topic after those few more references and the right spelling? --XTaran 23:14, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- All that makes it much more deserving of a mention, particularly as we have a handle on the origin of the word. I probably wouldn't put it in the first sentence of this article as it might act as a distraction from the central theme ... but go for whatever you think is best and include the references. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 23:48, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Added most of the above details to the article. --XTaran 17:35, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Even with the more popular spelling, PHPherlthon only has 12 Google results (not counting duplicates, and republications of the Wikipedia article). Therefore, I have removed it.
I also removed the lists of alternative operating systems, Web servers, DBMSes, and scripting languages, because they belong in operating system, Web server, DBMS, and scripting language respectively (all of which are linked to from LAMP). The principle here is simple: I shouldn't have to guess which B is the most popular A in order to find a list of As -- I should be able to find them at the article for A.
Meanwhile, it took me only five minutes of Googling to find that the LAMP term was used in the press three years before Wikipedia's claim of 2001. -- Mpt 12:59, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
self-reference[edit]
The software that currently runs Wikipedia could be characterized as a LAMP application. Wikipedia's MediaWiki software is developed primarily under Linux, using the Apache HTTP Server, with its content being stored in a MySQL database, and the program logic being implemented in PHP.
Does this violate the rule Wikipedia:Self-reference ??
- I've rephrased it; that should do it. JesseW 20:44, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)