RE: [PHP] ZDNet compares PHP to JSP, ASP & CF (Again, complete this time :)

"Andy Woolley" ... > Hi Michael, > > I agree.... One of things that blew my socks off when I first used PHP is > the absolute simplicity in retrieving data from something like MySQL. 4 > lines of code to create a connection, run a query and populate an array with > the values is just too easy. There is never (in the foreseeable future) > going to be a time when we will need to port our PHP & MySQL stuff to > anything else, so it isn't a problem. I agree with the simplicity of PHP and databases. I'm using PHP with a Oracle 8 database, and i learnt how to extract and insert data in a few days... And i have a friend that is programming with java servlets. He also works with Oracle 8 databases, but when he asked me to help him to connect to the DB i got astonished of the Java code... 4 lines of 50 chars just to connect to the database... 3 to make a query... 5 to extract a row... And it's SO SIMPLE with PHP that i simply hate java and love PHP...