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Submission + - The PHP Foundation is Seeking a New Executive Director (thephp.foundation)

Submitted by benramsey on Monday November 10, 2025 @01:27PM

benramsey writes: The PHP Foundation has launched a search for its next executive director.

The Executive Director serves as the operational leader of the PHP Foundation, defining its strategic vision and translating it into reality while managing day-to-day operations and serving as the primary bridge between the Board, staff, community, and sponsors.

While the programming language PHP is over 30 years old, the PHP Foundation was only created in 2021. The Executive Director will be responsible for maturing the foundationâ(TM)s internal structure and will play a crucial role in ensuring the foundation can effectively support this vital ecosystem.

Interested parties are encouraged to submit a cover letter describing their interest and relevant experience, resume or CV, and a brief vision statement detailing the applicantâ(TM)s understanding of the position, key opportunities and challenges they see for the foundation, and their approach to the role.

Comment A Few Responses (Score 5, Interesting) 354

by shiflett on Sunday April 12, 2009 @04:56PM (#27550595) Attached to: Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services?

A couple of good questions I have seen, and my best attempt to answer them:

1. Don't you mean rel? No, I mean rev. It indicates a reverse link.

2. Why not make your URLs short in the first place? I happen to like my URLs and have made them as short as I want them. They're only too long in some very specific use cases, like Twitter. I could just complain about Twitter, or I could support an idea that makes URL shortening suck less. I chose the latter.

Thanks for reading, and please do feel free to criticize whatever you think is wrong with this idea. I'd like a way to indicate a preferred short URL for my own stuff, and this seems like a pretty good way to do it that makes sense semantically and is easy to implement. For an ongoing discussion about adding an HTTP header to do the same thing (so that only a HEAD request is required), read here:

http://shiflett.org/blog/2009/apr/a-rev-canonical-http-header

Submission + - Can rev="canonical" save the Internet? (shiflett.org)

Submitted by

Chris Shiflett

on Saturday April 11, 2009 @01:13PM

Chris Shiflett writes: "There's a new proposal ("URL shortening that doesn't hurt the Internet") floating around for using rev="canonical" to help put a stop to the URL-shortening madness. In order to avoid the great linkrot apocalypse, we can opt to specify short URLs for our own pages, so that compliant services (adoption is still low, because the idea is pretty fresh) will use our short URLs instead of TinyURL.com (or some other third-party alternative) replacements."

Comment Re:Use some library/package or something (Score 1) 157

by shiflett on Friday June 15, 2007 @10:41AM (#19518985) Attached to: Yahoo! XSS Flaw Endangers its Users

The safeguard you're describing protects against CSRF and has nothing to do with XSS.

Comment Re:Glad to see it... (Score 1) 64

by benramsey on Tuesday February 01, 2005 @09:31AM (#11539163) Attached to: PHP Security Consortium Launched

With Plone, you can see what is possible...with Zope. With Zope, you can see what is possible with Python.

The problem here is that Plone is not a language; it is a CMS. And Zope is not a langauge; it is a framework that happens to be written in the language Python. Python otherwise shares the same problem as PHP: when you start a new project, you either have to find some existing code or reinvent the wheel. Zope minimizes this by providing a framework in which you can work and find a lot of the code you already need -- the wheel is already there.

There are many, many PHP frameworks out there that try to fill this need. The trouble is that there isn't a single PHP framework that has achieved the same level of notoriety as Zope. However, more and more people are using PEAR [pear.php.net] as a framework, and the beauty of PEAR is that you don't have to use the entire framework in one installation; you can pick and choose.

So, people in the PHP community are working to solve the wheel reinventing problem; it's just that many people either don't know about it or don't want to learn to use the existing frameworks.

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