Fw: [PHP] eWeek article

Timothy - Just a few insights from the php community =) As stated in the message below PHP is very supported. Speaking of the portablity issue how is ASP for portability?? Find an ASP server for linux!! let me help you out on this one www.chilisoft.com that is about it. Also take the time to read some reviews of this product... again let me help you... Slow, not all features supported, etc. Goto php.net and look at their links and/or projects pages mabye not over abundent but it will start a neverending path of resources. You will most likly find alot of projects that are 0.01beta. At least they are honest and don't put something like phpProject2000. Why is everything always in beta? That means that we are always working to improve them. Speaking from a more personal experence standpoint, please visit www.pcdiscounters.com I alone built this site in 4 days with PHP, yet it is robust, and can handle quite a few hits before it starts bogging down. The 4 day schedule was because of presure from up top, obviously with no clue about what something like that entales, but with the power and easy to use PHP it happend. Of course now that the pressure is off I will go back and tweak the code for better performance though. For administration, let see, www.phpnuke.org, www.egrail.com, these are more than just administration tools they are full on content management systems. And for www.pcdiscounters.com in that 4 day schedule I wrote my own administration tool that can add/remove content from the main page, file managment, database administration, server administration, email and FTP administration for sites that they sub-host, etc, etc. I can even restart the server and it will generate yet another page of any errors there were in the boot process. Doing this in ASP, CFML, JSP, would have been harder, taken more time, and according to your benchmarks would be considerably slower. I am not for a second going to say that PHP is perfect, it isn't by far. But how long does it take M$ to come out with a patch for ASP? Explain to me why JSP can only spit out 13 pages per minute? And how much did Allaire pay to be put at #1? With a price tag like that I am sure they can afford it though. Then again I guess the price is justified, after all they do have "some more advanced features, including arrays, structures..." as well as the astounding ability to "...access several databases." Also I would like to add that my personal favorite editor is UltraEdit32 which I have also used for PERL, JavaScript, C, C++, and a few others. You might want to give it a try on you next CFML, or ASP project, it supports just about every language known to man, with syntax coloring, an all the other goodies. Thanks, Jesse Binam ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Geier <mgeier@cdmsports.com> To: Php-General@Lists. Php. Net <php-general@lists.php.net>; Php-Dev@Lists. Php. Net <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:10 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] eWeek article > I SOOOOOOOOO (sarcasm....drip drip) love how the writer gives his low > opinion, yet PHP was by far the fastest of all 4. > > And a lack of editors...how about Homesite, Dreamweaver, or, my personal > favorite, VI. > > And the API issue, well we all know that that can't hold up...Metabase, > PEAR, and numerous others. > > It just shows that they just install and go and take no time to read > documentation on anything they test. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Robinson [mailto:mike@rmgroup.on.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 12:04 PM > To: Php-General@Lists. Php. Net; Php-Dev@Lists. Php. Net > Subject: [PHP] eWeek article > > > Hello, > > My mailbox got stuffed with another print version of eweek, > and the front page was devoted to an article about a test > of 4 scripting languages, php4 included. > > It was not particularly flattering. There is an online > version, verbatim. > > > http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2646052,00.html > > It was authored by Timothy Dyck. > > Regards > Mike Robinson > > (If any of you have puppies, I urge you to get a free sub > to the printed eweek. Very absorbant.) > > > > -- > 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 > >