RE: [PHP] php vs cold fusion

Also: A page you script using database interaction will not always be entirely portable since different databases support different features. For example an MSSQL server will support subqueries while MySQL won't. So a script written for some database using its specific functions will never be easily ported. Not if you're using Coldfusion (which I find very unpleasant by the way), not if you're using php (with or without phplib) or another scripting language. Only if you're using the basic SQL features (like select, insert, update and such) it might be portable, otherwise you still have to rescript a lot... Grt, dowebwedo Jeroen Wesbeek .programming St. Jacobsstraat 16 Postbus 448 | 3500 AK Utrecht The Netherlands p 030 2348110 | f 030 2348605 [roses are red, violets are blue, I am schizophrenic and so am I ] -----Original Message----- From: Maxim Maletsky [mailto:maxim.maletsky@japaninc.net] Sent: woensdag 1 november 2000 3:09 To: 'samantha@cfs.net.au'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] php vs cold fusion Gezz.... They say some pretty nasty things about PHP.... Read on: === A key concern for us is PHP's lack of a standardized database API: To access the Oracle database we were using, we had to code directly to the Oracle8 API, making our pages very nonportable and upping development costs. There are some ongoing projects in this area, including an effort to port Microsoft's ADO API to PHP === this is what PHPLIB is there for! $db->query($query); and that's it! Use it with Oracle, ODBC, MySQL, PostgeSQL with whatever SQL will ever exist! === Integrated development tools and debuggers for PHP are scarce (we could only find one, Ives Development Inc.'s Nexidion Designer, which is nearing Version 1.0 status). Also, any organization doing clustering or failover with PHP is in largely uncharted waters. === Is that so? Check that article out! http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/0,12249,2646052,00.html Gezz Crist... -----Original Message----- From: Samantha Savvakis [mailto:samantha@cfs.net.au] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:21 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] php vs cold fusion Did this whole topic of conversation come from this new article on ZDNet? I missed the original thread. http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/0,12249,2646052,00.html It pretty much bagged PHP in a sense. They say ColdFusion and JSP is the way to go. The article seemed a little biased to me. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net