PHP / MySQL Showcase needed

[Hoef]

I need to convince a friend of mine who is starting up a company to go the PHP / MySQL route vs Microsoft ASP etc... He is a Mac fan but no web design / data base expert. Do you know of great websites that use the technology so I can show him it is robust etc.... MR does but I was looking for more commercial / transaction type websites. Any suggestions welcome....

[dubbz]

Hm...

Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com) use MySQL, but I'm not sure if it use PHP. I know some of Yahoo! does, but not sure which parts.

I believe Lufthansa (http://www.lufthansa.com) use PHP and MySQL for their eTicket system.

Ticketmaster (http://www.ticketmaster.com/) use MySQL. Though they don't use PHP (they use Perl).

Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) use MySQL and PHP.

Hot or Not (http://www.hotornot.com) use MySQL and PHP ;)

PriceGrabber (http://www.pricegrabber.com) use MySQL and PHP as does StoreFront (http://www.storefront.net).

BBC Online (http://www.bbc.co.uk) use MySQL. Don't think they use PHP though.

I know most of them doesn't involve online transations, but hopefully this is of some help.

[Chacala_Nayarit]

PHP and SQL? If you are reading this thread, just look around the browser window.

Not sure if vBulletin is an example you are looking for, but that's my copa de leche (aka my 2 cents).

[Hoef]

Hm...

Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com) use MySQL, but I'm not sure if it use PHP. I know some of Yahoo! does, but not sure which parts.

I believe Lufthansa (http://www.lufthansa.com) use PHP and MySQL for their eTicket system.

Ticketmaster (http://www.ticketmaster.com/) use MySQL. Though they don't use PHP (they use Perl).

Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) use MySQL and PHP.

Hot or Not (http://www.hotornot.com) use MySQL and PHP ;)

PriceGrabber (http://www.pricegrabber.com) use MySQL and PHP as does StoreFront (http://www.storefront.net).

BBC Online (http://www.bbc.co.uk) use MySQL. Don't think they use PHP though.

I know most of them doesn't involve online transations, but hopefully this is of some help.

Thanks these are awesome examples!

[Hoef]

PHP and SQL? If you are reading this thread, just look around the browser window.

Not sure if vBulletin is an example you are looking for, but that's my copa de leche (aka my 2 cents).

Tx I was looking for something outside MR and more commerical

[Chacala_Nayarit]

Tx I was looking for something outside MR and more commerical

An adult-only site uses PHP/MYSQL, and has hundreds of requests a minute. Ever heard of BangBros Network?

[Chacala_Nayarit]

A higher education site that uses PHP: UW Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (http://www.washington.edu/dxarts/index.php)

By the way, this BFA/PHD program requires a PowerBook, and classes are in FCP and more. :D :cool:

[superbovine]

http://www.livejournal.com

[Knox]

http://www.livejournal.com

They use perl and MySQL, but it's a good one for MySQL at least. The developers have done several presentations at MySQL conferences, you can see the slides for a recent one on danga.com (http://www.danga.com/words/2005_mysqlcon/mysql-slides-2005.pdf)

[Sic]

speaking to the ebusiness manager at work, people generally like to use .NET over PHP because theres's official support for .NET, even though PHP is a more powerful language (imo) and it's not M$ which is never bad!! :p

if you're going to be starting a PHP/MYSQL web design company, you need to have people that can answer all your questions as quickly as possible. get your developers to do the zend engineers quals. then you'll have some serious PHP jedis on your hands. the exam is about £150 and you can grab the training manual from amazon

also, to echo what's already been said, look at any bulletin board software...Invision, Vbul etc...all PHP and MYSQL. built for security and to manage a high number of queries simultaneously.

[superbovine]

They use perl and MySQL, but it's a good one for MySQL at least. The developers have done several presentations at MySQL conferences, you can see the slides for a recent one on danga.com (http://www.danga.com/words/2005_mysqlcon/mysql-slides-2005.pdf)

yes i have read them before. quite interesting