Even JDeveloper Groks PHP

This is an ancient blog post originally published by Brian Duff on 30 August 2003 on Radio Weblogs, and rescued from the Wayback Machine. The images from the original post have unfortunately been lost to time…

Wow… PHP gets everywhere. There was the recent announcement that PHP support will be bundled with Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 and the launch of a new Open Source Developer Center on OTN (looks like a PHP developer center to me :) ). Now JDeveloper 10g seems to have “miraculously” obtained the ability to syntax highlight PHP files:

(missing image of PHP syntax highlighting in JDeveloper 10g)

If you’ve got a spare moment or two and have shunned the complexities of J2EE in favour of hacking it all out in scripting languages like PHP (or are using the two together in some ingenious but scary hybrid frankenstein-monster-esque arrangement), why not let us know about it in the Open Source Scripting Survey? A PS2 and other prizes are up for grabs :)