What is the state of GAE php?

[Jukka Hautakorpi]

I would like to know that what is the state of google app engine php, is it still going to be a developed product or is it already in the "to be killed" list ?

Why am i asking this? Because https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-php  has not been updated at all.

And the blog https://gae-php-tips.appspot.com/ has not been updated in over half year.

Im using gae php for my apps and i'd hate to see it shut down.

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hey Jukka,

I can't say I'm aware of any such plan. Be aware that once something is General Availability, which PHP just went into the other week, it will be only deprected after at least 1 year of warning. You can read about the deprecation policy in several places [1] [2] [3]. 

As or the appengine-php repository, it may have been updated a long time ago, meaning it's pretty much stable, but the PHP SDK has seen activity only 22 days ago. Not unreasonable for a release-based schedule.

I hope this has helped put you at ease with knowledge that PHP is very much supported and developing on the platform.

Sincerely,

Nick

[Stuart Langley]

As mentioned above, PHP on GAE just went to general availablility, and there are definetly no plans to turn down this service.

Currently, we do all our development inside of Google and not in github. The two major peices we work on are

a) The PHP SDK which is released as part of the general app engine release cycle. We push bulk changes we make to the SDK to https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-php-sdk when there is a new GAE release.

b) The GAE PHP PECL extension. This code is currently not open sourced although we are looking at putting it on github.

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-php contains very few GAE specific changes from stock PHP, and therefor we infrequently update the github repository. Ultimately this code is not that interesting for GAE developers when compared to (a) and (b) above.

As for the blog - I just haven't had time to write any interesting articles. If you can think of anything worth adding to the blog, please let me know.

Regards,

Stuart