Re: Its time for PHP to grow up

Michael Dransfield wrote:

I believe that companies will be more than willing to pay whatever you can think of for the enterprise benefits like clustering SRM etc... These packages could be packaged into an enterprise product, without referencing the components individually. Then adding support, I dont know what kind of support is provided by Microsoft (telephone email or otherwise...) email support would be easy to provide since there are already support newsgroups for every aspect of PHP.

I would gladly pay for a PHP application server somewhat like AOLServer. If I had a multi-threaded app server, that could load up a library of PHP code into memory at startup, pool database connections, provide session management and object persistence like SRM, and then let me assign URLs (with reg exp's even!) to specific PHP functions or scripts. And if it had a transport/protocol abstraction that allowed me to use it as a mail server, or ftp server too, so I could assign PHP code to reply to emails or customize downloaded files, I don't think I'd ever switch to a different system. Oh yeah, and internal timed execution of specific PHP functions too. Then again, I may simply be smoking a lot of crack and be asking for the impossible. -- Gabriel Ricard gabe@sumorai.net