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Roman Pronskiy

5 years ago
Hello Internals, The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be done to promote it more extensively. Usually for releases, there’s a short text announcement on php.net. This may be okay for minor releases and for people who are deeply involved in PHP as they already know about the new features. But for the majority of PHP developers and potential PHP developers, it is not enough. So, the idea is to create a separate release announcement landing page to achieve the following goals: – Promote the release of PHP 8 to the PHP developers – Promote PHP as a modern language, as well as the PHP 8 release, to the general tech audience Alexander Makarov, myself, and Svetlana Belozerova, a designer from JetBrains, have created the following concept: https://i.imgur.com/6fKmTyM.jpg We’d like to hear from you about how you like the idea. If you support it, we’ll finish the design and work on a PR against github.com/php/web-php with the implementation. Looking forward to hearing what you think. Roman Pronskiy, PMM at JetBrains

Lynn

5 years ago
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:57 AM Roman Pronskiy <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.com> wrote:
> Hello Internals, >
Hi, this message ended up in my spam directory with the message, could be that people missed it. When opening the message, gmail told me: "Gmail could not verify that it actually came from jetbrains.com. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information."

Arvids Godjuks

5 years ago
Can confirm, Gmail ate the email into spam folder. On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 10:16 Lynn <kjarli@gmail.com> wrote:

Sebastian Bergmann

5 years ago
Am 12.10.2020 um 09:56 schrieb Roman Pronskiy:
> The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could > say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be > done to promote it more extensively.
Agreed!
> So, the idea is to create a separate release announcement landing page > to achieve the following goals: > > – Promote the release of PHP 8 to the PHP developers > – Promote PHP as a modern language, as well as the PHP 8 release, to > the general tech audience > > Alexander Makarov, myself, and Svetlana Belozerova, a designer from > JetBrains, have created the following concept: > https://i.imgur.com/6fKmTyM.jpg
I like the idea as well as the concept you shared.

Lester Caine

5 years ago
On 12/10/2020 08:56, Roman Pronskiy wrote:
> The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could > say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be > done to promote it more extensively.
HOPEFULLY that does not mean it's as much of a cock-up as Python 2 to Python 3 changes. Personally I think this simply reinforces my thought that I will simply stick with PHP7 for as long as I can. I'm still running 7.2 live, and working through the code changes to get 7.3 running without warnings and since I'm reliant on Firebird I now have to manually build modules anyway so securing a private build I can maintain myself seems the right way forward.
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Rowan Collins

5 years ago
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 08:57, Roman Pronskiy <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.com> wrote:
> The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could > say it's a whole new language. >
I think that's going a bit far. I don't want to detract from the great features in 8.0, but there were great features in other releases as well - 7.4 had arrow functions and typed properties, for instance, which are just as game-changing for some code as named parameters and constructor property promotion. So, while I like the idea of shouting about the release, I'd like to see this become a regular effort for _every_ release from now on (i.e. 8.1, 8.2, etc), and I'd like to see it emphasise "version 8.0" rather than "PHP 8". With both PHP 5 and PHP 7, there was a concerted "evangelism" effort to get hosts and applications to upgrade, but really we want that to happen *every year*, not just every 5 years. I'm concerned that people may consider "PHP 7" to be "current", even though both 7.0 and 7.1 are now EOL, and that the same will happen with "PHP 8" in a few years' time. Regards,
-- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]

Roman Pronskiy

5 years ago
Agree, this should be for every release. So with this concept, we can start from PHP 8.0, see how it works, and then reuse the template for subsequent releases. On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 12:54 PM Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 08:57, Roman Pronskiy <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.com> > wrote: > > > The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could > > say it's a whole new language. > > > > > I think that's going a bit far. I don't want to detract from the great > features in 8.0, but there were great features in other releases as well - > 7.4 had arrow functions and typed properties, for instance, which are just > as game-changing for some code as named parameters and constructor property > promotion. > > So, while I like the idea of shouting about the release, I'd like to see > this become a regular effort for _every_ release from now on (i.e. 8.1, > 8.2, etc), and I'd like to see it emphasise "version 8.0" rather than "PHP > 8". > > With both PHP 5 and PHP 7, there was a concerted "evangelism" effort to get > hosts and applications to upgrade, but really we want that to happen *every > year*, not just every 5 years. I'm concerned that people may consider "PHP > 7" to be "current", even though both 7.0 and 7.1 are now EOL, and that the > same will happen with "PHP 8" in a few years' time. > > Regards, > -- > Rowan Tommins > [IMSoP]
-- Best regards, Roman Pronskiy Product Marketing Manager of PhpStorm https://www.jetbrains.com/

AllenJB

5 years ago
On 12/10/2020 08:56, Roman Pronskiy wrote:
> Hello Internals, > > The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could > say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be > done to promote it more extensively. > > Usually for releases, there’s a short text announcement on php.net. > This may be okay for minor releases and for people who are deeply > involved in PHP as they already know about the new features. But for > the majority of PHP developers and potential PHP developers, it is not > enough. > > So, the idea is to create a separate release announcement landing page > to achieve the following goals: > > – Promote the release of PHP 8 to the PHP developers > – Promote PHP as a modern language, as well as the PHP 8 release, to > the general tech audience > > Alexander Makarov, myself, and Svetlana Belozerova, a designer from > JetBrains, have created the following concept: > https://i.imgur.com/6fKmTyM.jpg > > We’d like to hear from you about how you like the idea. If you support > it, we’ll finish the design and work on a PR against > github.com/php/web-php with the implementation. > > Looking forward to hearing what you think. > > Roman Pronskiy, > PMM at JetBrains
As a developer I don't care for marketing fluff like this. What does this provide that the migration appendices and other documentation does not? I feel that this kind of page also has a very limited useful lifespan. As others have commented, I'm not sure what about PHP 8 makes it any more of a "whole new language" than many previous releases. I would much rather see the effort be focused on ensuring the migration guides be as complete and concise as possible whilst also ensuring other sections of the manual are updated too (information is sometimes only found in one or the other - ie. the migration guide is updated but the specific manual section is not). I would say that what might actually help drive upgrades / adoption is promotion of tooling that helps detect and automatically update code where possible (php-compatibility for CodeSniffer, Rector, etc). Obviously this starts to infringe on core's ongoing insistence on not referencing third party tools, but I feel this could possibly be solved with something like Python's Wiki that provides a "less official" area for community contributed content and "related content". (It need not necessarily be a wiki - it could be, for example, something GitHub powered) Such an area might also provide an easier to contribute to and more easily organised and updated representation for the conferences (which, despite being labelled "Upcoming" on the front page makes no real distinction and still lists events from 2015 - it might also be useful to be able to categorize / filter conferences by geographic, language or online/offline) and talks sections of the site. (I have talked about this before: https://externals.io/message/107096#107101 - see also my notes on Python's tutorial here and compare that to PHP.net's current official tutorial, which still references XForms and has a rather lacking "what's next" section) I also think new releases could be a good point for reviewing existing documentation - in some cases I feel that some sections have grown unwieldy and hard to use (quickly find what you want) in their current form. An example of this would be https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php which is quite a long read and has no table of contents despite having many sub-sections. (A TOC would also help by exposing the section-specific link anchors that already exist in the manual but are not obvious unless you use a browser plugin that exposes them). (It also appears to be missing information on array destructuring and unpacking features from 7.3 and 7.4 - an example of the specific manual sections not being updated that I mentioned earlier) AllenJB

Eliot Lear

5 years ago
What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release highlights.  It doesn't need to be fancy, but something that flashes a big PHP 8.0 logo or some such as the image as part of the preview would be quite nice. Eliot

Larry Garfield

5 years ago
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, at 6:10 AM, Eliot Lear wrote:
> What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that > will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release > highlights.  It doesn't need to be fancy, but something that flashes a > big PHP 8.0 logo or some such as the image as part of the preview would > be quite nice. > > Eliot
Apropos of this... where did the PHP 8 logo come from? And is it safe to reuse elsewhere for PHP 8-related marketing without further authorization? What's the license on it and where can one get the original version? (In SVG format, because all other logo formats are wrong.) --Larry Garfield

Ben Ramsey

5 years ago
> On Oct 12, 2020, at 08:24, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, at 6:10 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: >> What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that >> will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release >> highlights. It doesn't need to be fancy, but something that flashes a >> big PHP 8.0 logo or some such as the image as part of the preview would >> be quite nice. >> >> Eliot > > > Apropos of this... where did the PHP 8 logo come from? And is it safe to reuse elsewhere for PHP 8-related marketing without further authorization? What's the license on it and where can one get the original version? (In SVG format, because all other logo formats are wrong.) > > --Larry Garfield
Logo is from Vincent Pontier: * https://twitter.com/Elroubio/status/1300843481829703681?s=20 * https://twitter.com/Elroubio/status/1300836386518585346?s=20 You can download it at https://www.elephpant.com He offers it for free, in the same way he offers the elePHPant logo for free. There’s no license, though. Cheers, Ben

Gabriel Caruso

5 years ago
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 15:25, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, at 6:10 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > > What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that > > will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release > > highlights. It doesn't need to be fancy, but something that flashes a > > big PHP 8.0 logo or some such as the image as part of the preview would > > be quite nice. > > > > Eliot > > > Apropos of this... where did the PHP 8 logo come from? And is it safe to > reuse elsewhere for PHP 8-related marketing without further authorization? > What's the license on it and where can one get the original version? (In > SVG format, because all other logo formats are wrong.) > > --Larry Garfield > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
AFAIK via https://twitter.com/Elroubio/status/1300843481829703681, more specific https://www.donnedusens.fr/dwn/logo_php_8.zip.

Roman Pronskiy

5 years ago
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 2:10 PM Eliot Lear <lear@lear.ch> wrote:
> > What helps me when I spread the word is if there is a simple page that > will look good on a retweet/FB/LinkedIn page, with a couple of release > highlights. It doesn't need to be fancy, but something that flashes a > big PHP 8.0 logo or some such as the image as part of the preview would > be quite nice. > > Eliot >
Sure. This is important. We'll design images for social networks. These will be linked to the page via og: meta tags. -Roman

Matthew Brown

5 years ago
W/r/t the goals: – Promote the release of PHP 8 to the PHP developers
> – Promote PHP as a modern language, as well as the PHP 8 release, to the > general tech audience
The page's design does a *great* job of promoting PHP 8 to existing PHP developers, but a general tech audience skeptical of PHP's modern-day relevance is unlikely to be swayed by improvements to WordPress performance. I'm not sure that PHP's reputation with non-PHP developers can be improved by a splash page. As far as php.net can help with PHP's reputation, I think a brief homepage intro that showcased some modern-looking PHP code would be great (e.g. typescriptlang.org, golang.org). The docs design could also be slightly tweaked to make everything seem newer, while still keeping the (very good) content basically the same.

tyson andre

5 years ago
Hi internals, > As far as php.net can help with PHP's reputation, I think a brief homepage > intro that showcased some modern-looking PHP code would be great (e.g. > typescriptlang.org, golang.org). The docs design could also be > slightly tweaked to make everything seem newer, while still keeping the > (very good) content basically the same. That reminds me of an idea I had a while ago: One of the features I've seen on many other programming languages' documentation and tutorials was the ability to run and edit the example snippets. It may help in understanding the content of tutorials or example snippets for functions, - e.g. seeing what happens if code is rearranged or how PHP handles edge cases - It also allows new developers to try out php before deciding to install it. Right now, you can read the examples in https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php and copy them to run them locally, but you can't run them and see their output (as plain text or html, depending on context) Some examples in other languages: - MDN has JavaScript demos in the browser, e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/some - Rust has https://play.rust-lang.org/ (run on the server side) - golang has https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (run on the server side) There's two main options available for testing out php in a browser right now: - A general sandboxed php implementation hosted by the owners of php.net (requires that it be secured and may lead to additional hosting costs), https://3v4l.org/ (not open source https://3v4l.org/about - but similar to what I was thinking of) or https://psalm.dev/ (open source) are projects in that area (Matthew Brown is one of the authors of Psalm) - A WebAssembly solution, e.g. https://phan.github.io/demo/ (forked from https://oraoto.github.io/pib/) (I'm one of the maintainers of Phan) WebAssembly has some noticeable drawbacks such as requiring a modern browser, requiring a large download, and requiring more RAM than an ordinary website. Many other websites for programming languages have moved to sandboxed implementations hosted on an actual server. Thanks, - Tyson

Larry Garfield

5 years ago
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020, at 6:56 PM, tyson andre wrote:
> Hi internals, > > > As far as php.net can help with PHP's reputation, I think a brief homepage > > intro that showcased some modern-looking PHP code would be great (e.g. > > typescriptlang.org, golang.org). The docs design could also be > > slightly tweaked to make everything seem newer, while still keeping the > > (very good) content basically the same. > > That reminds me of an idea I had a while ago: > One of the features I've seen on many other programming > languages' documentation and tutorials was the ability to run and edit > the example snippets. > It may help in understanding the content of tutorials or example > snippets for functions, > - e.g. seeing what happens if code is rearranged > or how PHP handles edge cases > - It also allows new developers to try out php before deciding to > install it. > > Right now, you can read the examples in > https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php > and copy them to run them locally, but you can't run them and see their > output > (as plain text or html, depending on context) > > Some examples in other languages: > > - MDN has JavaScript demos in the browser, e.g. > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/some > - Rust has https://play.rust-lang.org/ (run on the server side) > - golang has https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (run on the server side) > > There's two main options available for testing out php in a browser right now: > > - A general sandboxed php implementation hosted by the owners of php.net > (requires that it be secured and may lead to additional hosting > costs), > https://3v4l.org/ (not open source https://3v4l.org/about - but > similar to what I was thinking of) > or https://psalm.dev/ (open source) are projects in that area > (Matthew Brown is one of the authors of Psalm) > - A WebAssembly solution, e.g. https://phan.github.io/demo/ (forked > from https://oraoto.github.io/pib/) > (I'm one of the maintainers of Phan) > > WebAssembly has some noticeable drawbacks such as requiring a modern > browser, > requiring a large download, and requiring more RAM than an ordinary > website. > Many other websites for programming languages have moved to sandboxed > implementations > hosted on an actual server. > > Thanks, > - Tyson
This sounds like a fantastic idea. The inline-run capability of Go and Rust's documentation is a huge win. Writing good sample code for the documentation would be an interesting challenge, but it's the sort of thing that can be done over time. The interesting question would be how to configure it to ensure it doesn't become a security issue. We'd probably need to lock down the environment's ini settings *hard* to make sure it can't do any outgoing communication at all. If we need hosting for that, I work for a hosting company and we're happy to help. --Larry Garfield

Dik Takken

5 years ago
On 14-10-2020 03:41, Larry Garfield wrote:
> This sounds like a fantastic idea. The inline-run capability of Go and Rust's documentation is a huge win. Writing good sample code for the documentation would be an interesting challenge, but it's the sort of thing that can be done over time.
I second this. However, then we should also make sure that the example code actually works, and on which PHP versions. As soon as examples can be run right from the documentation pages, the examples will be run far more frequently than they are now, simply because it is so much easier to do. Broken examples will cause more disappointing experiences. I don't know if example code is currently tested automatically. If not, adding a sandbox for running them may also offer an opportunity for automatic testing. Besides experimenting with example code, a sandbox may also be used to expose runtime information. Think of generated opcodes, the JIT compiled assembly, the AST. At some point I can imagine adding a documentation page about performance, optimization and JIT. That page could enable users to see how an example code snippet is compiled, optimized and how type inference is done. Change the code, change opcache settings and see what happens. It is interesting to toy around with and it helps to get more exposure to some impressive developments of recent years.
> The interesting question would be how to configure it to ensure it doesn't become a security issue. We'd probably need to lock down the environment's ini settings *hard* to make sure it can't do any outgoing communication at all.
Trying to lock things down will also limit the example code that can be run. And we run the risk of overlooking things. Maybe we could learn from other languages, how they set up their sandbox environments.
> If we need hosting for that, I work for a hosting company and we're happy to help.
I think we all highly appreciate that offer. Regards, Dik Takken

Brent

5 years ago
Hi internals Regarding the matter of a sandbox, one of my colleagues open sourced a Laravel sandbox that runs straight in the browser and uses docker containers, with a little work you can extract away the Laravel part and have it run plain PHP. Here's the source: https://github.com/spatie/tinker.app <https://github.com/spatie/tinker.app> and here's it running: https://tinker.app/ <https://tinker.app/> On topic now, regarding the promo page: this kind of marketing is where PHP lacks a little bit, so I think it's a great initiative. A simple one pager just to promote PHP, one you can share with both PHP and non-PHP developers, and teases the right amount to get some people interested. A perfect page to share on hackernews, reddit, twitter and the likes. I think it's a great first step! Kind regards Brent

Sara Golemon

5 years ago
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 6:18 AM Dik Takken <dik.takken@gmail.com> wrote:
> > However, then we should also make sure that the example > code actually works, and on which PHP versions. As soon as examples can > be run right from the documentation pages, the examples will be run far > more frequently than they are now, simply because it is so much easier > to do. Broken examples will cause more disappointing experiences. >
Agreed 100%. I do think it should be reasonable to write a one-time doc scanner to look for <programlisting role="php" /> and attempt to run those in a container. It's not going to be a guarantee that the code does what we *expect*, but we can probably turn it into a report of "things that definitely don't parse" + "things that raise E_ERROR" + "things that warn/notice, should be looked at" + "things that we hope probably work maybe" and from there just have a prominent "report a bug about this example" button which prefills a lot of the bugs.php.net form data and/or maybe even avoid duplication by attaching "me too" to reports that have already been filed for a given code snippet hash. Bear in mind translations sometimes have unique bugs (variable names and example content get translated too), so scanning the other languages would be a good followup task. TL;DR - Yes, this is work to do up front, but it's pretty clear that we can turn this from a massive pile of wtf into a tractable problem.
> I don't know if example code is currently tested automatically. If not, > adding a sandbox for running them may also offer an opportunity for > automatic testing. >
It's automatically run in the brain of whoever commits the example to the docs repository. :( Usually this doesn't lead to any *majorly* broken code, but a typo here or there is sadly not uncommon. Once in a while we get a report via bugs.php.net and it's a quick fix, but bugs exist.
> - A general sandboxed php implementation hosted > by the owners of php.net (requires that it be secured > and may lead to additional hosting costs), > https://3v4l.org/ (not open source https://3v4l.org/about - > but similar to what I was thinking of) >
The simple implementation here is a "try this code" button that pops 3v4l.org open in a new tab with the code prefilled and running. That means a conversation with the owner of 3v4l.org obviously, but potentially doable, and probably not hard.
> or https://psalm.dev/ (open source) are projects in that area > (Matthew Brown is one of the authors of Psalm) >
I don't like the idea of executing that on www.php.net for a few reasons, but someone else mentioned the possibility of donated cpu time from somewhere that's worth a conversation.
> - A WebAssembly solution, e.g. https://phan.github.io/demo/ > (forked from https://oraoto.github.io/pib/) (I'm one of the maintainers
of Phan)
>
Honestly, I like this solution best. There are drawbacks, and we'd probably need to suppress it in certain reference chapters (e.g. mysql, since there's no DB to talk to), but damn if it don't feel skippy trying it out just now. (On my admittedly well connected, beefy dev workstation) -Sara

Matthew Brown

5 years ago
> > > or https://psalm.dev/ (open source) are projects in that area > > (Matthew Brown is one of the authors of Psalm) > > > I don't like the idea of executing that on www.php.net for a few reasons, > but someone else mentioned the possibility of donated cpu time from > somewhere that's worth a conversation. > > > - A WebAssembly solution, e.g. https://phan.github.io/demo/ > > (forked from https://oraoto.github.io/pib/) (I'm one of the maintainers > of Phan) > > > Honestly, I like this solution best. There are drawbacks, and we'd > probably need to suppress it in certain reference chapters (e.g. mysql, > since there's no DB to talk to), but damn if it don't feel skippy trying it > out just now. (On my admittedly well connected, beefy dev workstation) > > -Sara >
I don't think Tyson was suggesting running Psalm on php.net, merely showing it as an example of a server-based approach. Ironically I added that server-based demo because I was so taken by the client-side one on hacklang.org which ran a version of Hack's typechecker transpiled from the original Ocaml (it sadly doesn't work any more). I think the WASM solution would be great. The 2MB download would be cached between pages, and a simple bit of JS would ensure it was only downloaded when a user wanted an interactive mode, and only on browsers that could run WASM. There'd also be the novelty of a mature language ecosystem relying on a new, hip, technology. All the kids would love it.

Peter Bowyer

5 years ago
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 00:56, tyson andre <tysonandre775@hotmail.com> wrote:
> There's two main options available for testing out php in a browser right > now: > > - A general sandboxed php implementation hosted by the owners of php.net > (requires that it be secured and may lead to additional hosting costs), > https://3v4l.org/ (not open source https://3v4l.org/about - but similar > to what I was thinking of) > or https://psalm.dev/ (open source) are projects in that area > (Matthew Brown is one of the authors of Psalm) > - A WebAssembly solution, e.g. https://phan.github.io/demo/ (forked from > https://oraoto.github.io/pib/) > (I'm one of the maintainers of Phan) >
Add repl.it to the list: a couple of releases behind, but works very well in my experience for testing. https://repl.it/languages/php_cli On the page: a big +1 from me. PHP needs some marketing, and I would like the content to address the objections from naysayers online who start by saying "I haven't used PHP since PHP 4/5 and I wouldn't use it because..." Can any firms that support PHP donate a copywriter or marketing executive to help? Peter

Benjamin Eberlei

5 years ago
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 1:56 AM tyson andre <tysonandre775@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals, > > > As far as php.net can help with PHP's reputation, I think a brief > homepage > > intro that showcased some modern-looking PHP code would be great (e.g. > > typescriptlang.org, golang.org). The docs design could also be > > slightly tweaked to make everything seem newer, while still keeping the > > (very good) content basically the same. > > That reminds me of an idea I had a while ago: > One of the features I've seen on many other programming > languages' documentation and tutorials was the ability to run and edit the > example snippets. > It may help in understanding the content of tutorials or example snippets > for functions, > - e.g. seeing what happens if code is rearranged > or how PHP handles edge cases > - It also allows new developers to try out php before deciding to install > it. > > Right now, you can read the examples in > https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php > and copy them to run them locally, but you can't run them and see their > output > (as plain text or html, depending on context) > > Some examples in other languages: > > - MDN has JavaScript demos in the browser, e.g. > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/some > - Rust has https://play.rust-lang.org/ (run on the server side) > - golang has https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (run on the server side) > > There's two main options available for testing out php in a browser right > now: > > - A general sandboxed php implementation hosted by the owners of php.net > (requires that it be secured and may lead to additional hosting costs), > https://3v4l.org/ (not open source https://3v4l.org/about - but similar > to what I was thinking of) > or https://psalm.dev/ (open source) are projects in that area > (Matthew Brown is one of the authors of Psalm) > - A WebAssembly solution, e.g. https://phan.github.io/demo/ (forked from > https://oraoto.github.io/pib/) > (I'm one of the maintainers of Phan) > > WebAssembly has some noticeable drawbacks such as requiring a modern > browser, > requiring a large download, and requiring more RAM than an ordinary > website. > Many other websites for programming languages have moved to sandboxed > implementations > hosted on an actual server. > > Thanks, > - Tyson >
Sorry to step in here as this crowds out the original post too much imho, this is really a tangential concern from Romans original post though. Inline execution would be really awesome, but coupling this to a release announcement to PHP 8 sets both projects up for failure imho. To expand back to the topic, if we think Romans idea is great, then the next steps would be to enable Roman to put this in place for the PHP 8 release. Its only 6 few weeks out, so going this backwards i would say 1. October: RMs and/or php-web maintainers should give their go on the idea (someone else?), so that more detailed creative time investment is not going to waste. 2. until mid November: Roman's group of contributors have time to finalize creative design and copywirting 3. until mid November Someone with access to php-web would volunteer to guide through technical roadblocks / deployment of the release announcement, maybe keeping it simple as a static html page for now 4. ~20th November: Page is rolled out with a date based feature flag?

Sara Golemon

5 years ago
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 9:25 AM Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de> wrote:
> > 1. October: RMs and/or php-web maintainers should give their go on the
idea
> (someone else?), so that more detailed creative time investment is not > going to waste.
FTR they came to Gabriel and I *first*. Sounded like a neat idea to both of us, but I explicitly deferred them to internals@lists.php.net* as that's not up to whoever happens to be RM for that release. It's something for all of us to agree (or disagree) on. On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:32 AM Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote:
> Also note that anything related to the websites belong to the > php-webmaster@ mailing list, *not* internals and I would highly > recommend moving the thread there. >
I sent them here rather than php-webmaster@ because that list is noisier than a Rhino in a wind chime factory. You might well have been the only person to notice it had it gone there. On the rest of your response, I agree. PHP has long held neutrality and there's no good reason to start playing favorites now. That said, I think it might be reasonable to invite *any* (or perhaps, "any with at least X many Ys" -- criteria TBD) framework/app/project to provide their own stats (relative changes only, no claims on absolute "speed" relative to each other). We already allow conferences to submit NEWS items that go on the front page. Inviting claims (with disclaimers?) from PHP adjacent projects isn't a massive leap from there. As for the "community leaders" section... I hadn't even noticed that on first review. The name of that is even a little gross and presumptive. I'd probably just toss that one out. With projects, we can at the very least put a requirement that it must be FOSS. That doesn't work in this section nearly so well. -Sara

Roman Pronskiy

5 years ago
Hi folks, Thank you all for the feedback. Here is a quick recap of where the matter stands. 1. It seems there’s a consensus that it would be great if the PHP 8 release had a nice sharable release announcement page. But we need to keep neutrality. We’ll update the concept to remove potentially biased blocks. 2. Some have noted that these changes are unlikely to magically change PHP’s reputation. Agree. The goal is to spread the word about the release and the features it brings. 3. There is an agreement that it would be great to work further on improving the php.net homepage and documentation. This one is beyond the present scope, and we can discuss it in a separate thread. It also intersects with the PHP Community Synergy Initiative [1] started by Christoph Rumpel and Paul Dragoonis. So it makes sense to consolidate these efforts. We are going to continue the work on design and copywriting. And start with POC in github.com/php/php-web. I’ll keep posting significant updates on the progress in this thread. -Roman [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/ivpfcf/php_community_synergy_initiative/

Benjamin Eberlei

5 years ago
Hi Roman, On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:57 AM Roman Pronskiy <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.com> wrote:
> Hello Internals, > > The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could > say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be > done to promote it more extensively. > > Usually for releases, there’s a short text announcement on php.net. > This may be okay for minor releases and for people who are deeply > involved in PHP as they already know about the new features. But for > the majority of PHP developers and potential PHP developers, it is not > enough. > > So, the idea is to create a separate release announcement landing page > to achieve the following goals: > > – Promote the release of PHP 8 to the PHP developers > – Promote PHP as a modern language, as well as the PHP 8 release, to > the general tech audience > > Alexander Makarov, myself, and Svetlana Belozerova, a designer from > JetBrains, have created the following concept: > https://i.imgur.com/6fKmTyM.jpg > > We’d like to hear from you about how you like the idea. If you support > it, we’ll finish the design and work on a PR against > github.com/php/web-php with the implementation. > > Looking forward to hearing what you think. >
i love the idea! Honestly in my opinion, the actual content itself and what is or what is not on the page is not so important, this kind of release announcement post is mostly about the signal effect to the outside world that there is a force behind PHP that goes beyond "a few people tinkering on a programming language" (to be hyperbolic). As such I think we should just do it and not bikeshed over the content, or if this marketing speaks to old or new users or what does. If the overall message is along the lines is "PHP gets faster again, PHP gets more awesome features again, PHP is alive and kicking" then this is a huge win :-)

Máté Kocsis

5 years ago
Hi Roman, I 100% agree with what Benjamin has just written. Marketing PHP as a modern, thriving programming language which (mostly) left its dark past behind is very much needed. That said, I'm very grateful for this idea, so thank you! I like the design as well: it's informative, looks clean, and fits php.net very well. Regards: Máté

Kalle Sommer Nielsen

5 years ago
Hi Den man. 12. okt. 2020 kl. 10.57 skrev Roman Pronskiy <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.com>:
> https://i.imgur.com/6fKmTyM.jpg
The concept looks great, however in the current state, it cannot go in like that which mainly comes down to neutrality. - This means we cannot display projects such as Symfony, Laravel and WordPress at the top.Sure they are popular, but we cannot promote them. - At the same time we cannot have the community leaders section and potentially not the one beneath that, again this comes down to neutrality and not to show any sort of favoritism. Note we do not link to Core Developer blogs or anything like that, the closet you would get to that is people.php.net, and even that is limited. This basically means that at best, this page can be a glorified migration page with code examples and new features presented in a long page style layout (unlike the sectioned multi page style that the manual traditionally has), which I would be perfectly fine with and accept if posted as a PR for php-web on Github. Personal side note here: I would prefer to keep the written language similar to existing style on PHP.net for consistency, the "overselling" part is personally a bit too much for me, and more something I would expect to read on pages like Zend.com that has a business gain for getting users on PHP8 or whatnot, however not a deal-breaker for me. However the most important thing I see here is to actually begin documenting these features, as linking to their RFCs, is not the way we should document features. I'm currently not aware of what the status is on that, but given the last few versions of PHP, we are probably far from a state where PHP8 is broadly available in the manual. This naturally is not a blocker for this project, but a consideration. Also note that anything related to the websites belong to the php-webmaster@ mailing list, *not* internals and I would highly recommend moving the thread there.
-- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net

Ben Ramsey

5 years ago
> On Oct 15, 2020, at 10:32, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote: > > Hi > > Den man. 12. okt. 2020 kl. 10.57 skrev Roman Pronskiy > <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.com>: >> https://i.imgur.com/6fKmTyM.jpg > > The concept looks great, however in the current state, it cannot go in > like that which mainly comes down to neutrality. > > - This means we cannot display projects such as Symfony, Laravel and > WordPress at the top.Sure they are popular, but we cannot promote > them. > - At the same time we cannot have the community leaders section and > potentially not the one beneath that, again this comes down to > neutrality and not to show any sort of favoritism. Note we do not link > to Core Developer blogs or anything like that, the closet you would > get to that is people.php.net, and even that is limited.
If there’s interest in turning this into a community project outside the official PHP project, I’d be interested in helping coordinate the efforts, in addition to the use of the domain gophp8.dev and hosting. This way, the PHP project can maintain its neutrality, while the community can iterate quickly on promoting the release of PHP 8. Cheers, Ben

Larry Garfield

5 years ago
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Ben Ramsey wrote:
> If there’s interest in turning this into a community project outside > the official PHP project, I’d be interested in helping coordinate the > efforts, in addition to the use of the domain gophp8.dev and hosting. > > This way, the PHP project can maintain its neutrality, while the > community can iterate quickly on promoting the release of PHP 8. > > Cheers, > Ben
Oh, you snagged that one, eh? :-) I also have gophp.[org|me|info] available if we want to do something with them. --Larry Garfield

Ben Ramsey

5 years ago
> On Oct 15, 2020, at 11:32, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Ben Ramsey wrote: > >> If there’s interest in turning this into a community project outside >> the official PHP project, I’d be interested in helping coordinate the >> efforts, in addition to the use of the domain gophp8.dev and hosting. >> >> This way, the PHP project can maintain its neutrality, while the >> community can iterate quickly on promoting the release of PHP 8. >> >> Cheers, >> Ben > > Oh, you snagged that one, eh? :-) I also have gophp.[org|me|info] available if we want to do something with them.
I personally don’t own it, but it’s available for use to the community, if it wants it. :-) Cheers, Ben

Gabriel Caruso

5 years ago
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 09:57, Roman Pronskiy <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.com> wrote:
> Hello Internals, > > The PHP 8 release is going to be huge, and in some sense, you could > say it's a whole new language. There is a feeling that more can be > done to promote it more extensively. > > Usually for releases, there’s a short text announcement on php.net. > This may be okay for minor releases and for people who are deeply > involved in PHP as they already know about the new features. But for > the majority of PHP developers and potential PHP developers, it is not > enough. > > So, the idea is to create a separate release announcement landing page > to achieve the following goals: > > – Promote the release of PHP 8 to the PHP developers > – Promote PHP as a modern language, as well as the PHP 8 release, to > the general tech audience > > Alexander Makarov, myself, and Svetlana Belozerova, a designer from > JetBrains, have created the following concept: > https://i.imgur.com/6fKmTyM.jpg > > We’d like to hear from you about how you like the idea. If you support > it, we’ll finish the design and work on a PR against > github.com/php/web-php with the implementation. > > Looking forward to hearing what you think. > > Roman Pronskiy, > PMM at JetBrains > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
Roman, One question that I've received from a couple of communities about this proposal: can we have translations of this page? Portuguese, French, Russian, etc. Best, -- Gabriel Caruso

Roman Pronskiy

5 years ago
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:51 AM Gabriel Caruso <carusogabriel34@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Roman, > > One question that I've received from a couple of communities about this proposal: can we have translations of this page? Portuguese, French, Russian, etc. >
From a technical perspective, I assume it should be possible to reuse php.net/manual/ mechanism for translations. As for the texts, the only way we can finish translations by November 26 is if we get community help. Because JetBrains localization resources will be overwhelmed during this period. Alexander and I can do Russian. Do you think we can get help with other languages? -Roman

Сергей Пантелеев

5 years ago
Hi there! I'm also ready to help with Russian translation wbr, Sergey Panteleev On 19 Oct 2020, 16:54 +0300, Roman Pronskiy <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.com>, wrote:

Benjamin Morel

5 years ago
I can handle the French one if you need someone. Just send me the texts! — Benjamin On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 15:59, Sergey Panteleev <sergey@s-panteleev.ru> wrote:

Gabriel Caruso

5 years ago
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 15:54, Roman Pronskiy <roman.pronskiy@jetbrains.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:51 AM Gabriel Caruso > <carusogabriel34@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Roman, > > > > One question that I've received from a couple of communities about this > proposal: can we have translations of this page? Portuguese, French, > Russian, etc. > > > > From a technical perspective, I assume it should be possible to reuse > php.net/manual/ mechanism for translations. > > As for the texts, the only way we can finish translations by November > 26 is if we get community help. Because JetBrains localization > resources will be overwhelmed during this period. Alexander and I can > do Russian. Do you think we can get help with other languages? > > -Roman >
I can handle the Brazilian Portuguese one, send me the texts!

Roman Pronskiy

5 years ago
Folks, The PR with the page implementation is almost ready [1]. There a few things left, but comments are very welcome. It has a Russian version as an example of a translated page [2]. If you'd like to help with translating to other languages, please create PR against [3]. [1] https://github.com/php/web-php/pull/350 [2] https://github.com/php/web-php/pull/350/files#diff-9bdd4a209e79dd6699e189feb42fe7edd97402331ab4d4078d84dbd01df239e2 [3] https://github.com/naruzl/web-php/tree/JS-13812-develop-markup-for-php-8-announcement - Roman Pronskiy