Re: <b>Rumours</b>

> Hi guys, first time around, please be gentle :) > > We're considering using PHP for our new money-is-an-issue web site, but > people keep telling me PHP is a dead end, it's in fact a dying > language. > > Is this just vicious rumour-mongering on behalf of Mo$oft? > Dying? Hmm, doubtfull. It is open source, even if everyone all over the world agrees to stop developing PHP, the source will still be available for download somewhere. The only way to kill PHP, Linux, *BSD, etc. is to destroy every single copy on every single machine all over the world at the same time. It isn't going to happen. People who say PHP is dying are either making it up, or have heard it from someone who was making it up. Probably some Microsoft spokesweasel. At my companies site, www.dmn.com, we are an all PHP shop. No perl, no java, just PHP (and some application servers written in C) I quite honestly could not imagine how we could have done the site without PHP. I've used all the M$ offerings, Java, and other things. PHP beats them all on a number of levels: (1) The language is very logical, it is well thought out and manageable. (2) Extensible, we are running a few custom PHP extensions. (3) External API support, we use Oracle, PostgreSQL, XML, etc. on our site. It is trivial to configure and get working. (4) More than Fast enough. It is a fairly fast environment. It isn't the fastest, but IMHO it is the a good compromise between speed and features.