Re: php vs cold fusion

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Hotchilli Support wrote: > 1) Coldfusion - 10 times faster developement than ASP or PHP3/4 > That is where Coldfusion got it right - We all send mail, we all encrypt a > string so why re-invent > the wheel and have to write code for this - use a tag <CFMAIL or <CFCRYPT > etc...... Eh. Getting PHP development to match or exceed CF's is quite easy. Write your generic functions once, and use them everywhere. I submit that with the various DB tools out there (PHPLib, Metabase, Pear's DB), it's already possible to develop DB-related code just as fast. It's simply a matter of background. Any Java, C, C++, Perl etc. coder will adopt PHP very quickly, because PHP borrows a lot of syntax and behavior from these languages. ColdFusion, however, is a set of tags, which isn't really similar to any popular language. Its only saving grace is that it's somewhat limited in scope, and hence simple to learn. > 2) Coldfusion - more stable than PHP3/4 I wanted to avoid adding to this thread, since it's a very dead horse, but I have to take exception to this. I work in a ColdFusion shop, but I myself do web apps in PHP for a couple customers that request it. During my time here, I've been running a Linux development server which hasn't been rebooted in a little over a year. (392 days as of this writing) At the same time, I witnessed both the development and production CF 4.5 servers crash regularly for a period of a few months. One of the developers who sits near me was literally able to take down the NT server with buggy CF code. She didn't know why, but she could completely crash the CF server, which took the NT server with it. I don't consider this more stable. :) Generally my obsevations have led me to conclude that CF is a language for writing websites, not web apps. Matt