Re: Porting ASP code to PHP

On Monday, April 2, 2001, at 05:53 PM, Mike King wrote:

Michael Stearne wrote:

get the application running in it as soon as possible. Maybe, but that's what version 2.0 is for! Again that can come over time, get it to PHP first and then make it run better,

So your solution is to write/port a crappy application,

I said a couple of times that I assumed that the application was designed well. The "crappyness" of an application has nothing to do with the language it is in. Is it a good application or not? If you have the same people that wrote the application write it again in a "better" language and the design was crap, the application will still be crap.

then spend time fixing/supporting it?

What you think you won't be fixing and supporting a PHP application if it is design poorly?

I hate developers who take this philosophy.

Do you want to use PHP or not? What is more important, to use PHP or re-write the application? If it is more important to re-write the app with a cleaner implementation then I have a feeling your senior programmer (who has NO PHP experience) would just assume go make a version 2 in ASP because that is what he is familiar with. I doubt you will get PHP and a complete rewrite. Choose your battles. Michael