Re: Function caching...

At 22:24 9/12/2000, Joey Smith wrote:

I want to throw my $0.02 in here. It has been said over and over by both Zeev and Rasmus that PHP is not intended as an application server. It is not what it was designed to be, and I do not want to see it go in that direction. I *would* love to see an application server written that accepts PHP syntax, and can load modules written that were written for PHP. But that's not what I want PHP itself to become. IIUC, Such an application server could theoretically be written using the Zend engine as its backend. But since the OOP support in Zend has some holes (as all of the Core team has admitted repeatedly), perhaps a new engine should be written, so that it is compatible with Zend and PHP modules. In either case, I do not think that we need to beat up on PHP because we are trying to use it for things it was never intended for. No one suggests fixing Excel because I cannot use it as a full-fledged word processor (although it is close ;). Instead, they use a word processor to do word processing. The same holds true for PHP/Application Server, IMHO.

*Exactly*. We do plan to try and improve the OO system in the Zend engine in version 1.1, but admittedly, there's no time frame for this yet. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/