An actual PHP hammer with the claw on both sides

[seldo]

How do I nominate a double-clawed hammer as the new logo of PHP?

[fredley]

http://php.net/download-logos.php

> In case you have found some PHP logos, icons or other material around the web, feel free to point those out to us, so we can include them here, if appropriate.

[roel_v]

I've been using PHP for well over 10 years, and I love this thing. It seems like most commenters take this as a snub to PHP, I don't see it that way at all. Note that the guy who made this is also a PHP dev and has been for a long time.

[SimHacker]

You can't hate PHP properly unless you use it. But you also can't hate PHP properly unless you use other languages. If you don't use PHP first hand, then you don't know it well enough to appreciate what's truly wrong with it. And if you don't use and know other languages well enough, then you don't appreciate how much better PHP could have been if it wasn't so horribly designed.

So thinking PHP is horrible without ever having ever used it is as bad as thinking PHP is good without ever having used anything better.

[maratd]

> I've been using PHP for well over 10 years, and I love this thing.

You're not alone. There are many of us. PHP powers the Internet, period. Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Drupal, etc. etc. You can whine all you want about this and that, but you can't argue with success.

As far as hammers go, I had my wife make me a stuffed PHP elephant! It's on my desk right now.

[nikhildaga]

http://news.php.net/php.internals/58385

[gooddelta]

Quite possibly the best thing I've seen this month. You can hammer nails using the side... Sorta.

[K2h]

If you offset one side, it might actually be useful for longer nails that are already started, you could turn the Hamm... I mean claw tool around and continue to extract the nail where you don't have to tilt the handle all the way down and put that narly bend in the nail. Nice job on the construction.

[ertdfgcb]

Wow, he did a really good job of making that weld disappear.

[bigiain]

Yeah, I love how it's two perfectly good hammers, cut in half ; with the most important bit thrown away, and the rest "cut-n-pasted" together, then lovingly smoothed over so you cant tell… I think I've seen that before…

[vibrunazo]

I want one with JavaScript written on it. And a curved nail with DOM written on it.

[web_chops]

and of course the handle is semi-colon shaped and completely optional!

[skrebbel]

want!!

If you're going to make more, please announce; I'm buying.

[gyaresu]

I've seen worse Kickstarters.

[jboggan]

I don't know what exactly to call this corner of the world, but this is exactly why I love it.

[brendanobrien]

couldn't agree more.

[captn3m0]

Rasmus Lerdorf was at my college recently, and he too describes PHP in the very same terms.

>GG: Your take in one line on PHP.

>RL: In one line…it’s a web hammer - the one tool that you can use to solve any web problem you have.

Full interview at http://gg.ieeeiitr.com/rasmus_interview.php

The interview was for the college IEEE magazine.

[redstar504]

Where do I place an order?

[liamcampbell]

I'm sure there's a joke somewhere in its resemblance to a Ruby pickax, but I'll leave it for someone else to sort out.

[steelaz]

Right now this is the top post on HN. Why?

[steelaz]

Thanks for the downvotes, but I'm serious. A link to "funny" image is at the very top, this is one small step from memes being posted on HN.

[cheald]

Easily the best part of this photoset is that it's hanging in a spot labelled "wrench".

I have never seen PHP explained quite so succinctly.

[seanlinehan]

This. Is. Awesome.

[ianleckey]

hahaha, that is fantastic

[guccimane]

I don't see what all the fuss is. A good craftsman could build a house no matter what hammer he chooses. Don't be such a snob about insisting that hammers must have heads to drive nails, just because all the hammers you've used before happened to have them.

[tptacek]

For that matter, why do they even need handles? Primitive ape-men just used big rocks as their tools. If it's good enough for the ape-men...!

[wyck]

My hammer makes your hammer look ..well. ape-ish, http://i.imgur.com/R5CwZ.jpg

[MartinCron]

You had a great opportunity to use the word "peen" in context and you let it go. Shame.

[DanWaterworth]

The fuss is that good tools don't require you to be a prize-winning craftsman to do day-to-day things.

[Jebus]

More PHP envy? Get over it, PHP > all, and that's not gonna change anytime soon