Re: PHP Business Pack

James Moore wrote: > Somthing that a lot of people have been asking for in various places is > reasons for using PHP commerically. I thought that I would try and gather as > much information as possible together and put together a bussiness pack on > why to use PHP commercialy. > > What I would like to include is: > - Costs of Development/Deployment - free - flat learning curve - cheap scripters vs. expensive programmers - rapid prototyping - lots of functions for everydays work - broad database support - buzz words: XML/XSLT - phplib, pear and php-classes repositories > - Comparing ease of use/speed against other scripting langs. - easy to compile and install - available for lots of webservers - Zend/bware Cache > - PHP in a commercial enviroment - strong community - professional support avaiable - professional training avaiable - Zend Encoder/Loader to hide code > - Scaleability (Please no application server stuff) Hmm. Not really a strength of PHP. Starts with CGI and ends with mod_php / DNS round robin. Scales mainly just by the hardware. Maybe you could try to discuss Apache 2.0. > - Some benchmarks Really difficult, try to avoid this. All benchmarks lie... > - Case Studies of existing solutions Have a look at the existing list of users on http://www.php.net/sites.php . > - Anything else anybody thinks is relavant http://www.php.net/projects.php, PHP architecture (modular, easy to extend...). Ulf