Re: PHP pros and cons

--- Steve Douville <php@douville.net> wrote: > I do like CF's ability to just name data sources on the server and > reference them that way. You won't be able to reproduce the "cfadmin" stuff with PHP, simply because PHP isn't a persistent process, but I think great strides will be made on the database front with this: http://pecl.php.net/package/PDO One of ColdFusion's strengths has always been uniforum database access within the code without the extra cost of a userland database abstraction layer. PDO should give PHP developers that same mix of consistency and performance. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security - O'Reilly Coming Fall 2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams http://httphandbook.org/ PHP Community Site http://phpcommunity.org/