Re: PHP is cool by me.

Amen ! __________John Monfort_________________ _+-----------------------------------+_ P E P I E D E S I G N S www.pepiedesigns.com "The world is waiting, are you ready?" -+___________________________________+- On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Sterling Hanenkamp wrote: > Just thought I'd send in my testimonial. I run a web site for a > relatively small business (4 employees including the President ;). > Anyway, I had been using JSP and Servlets to manage our smallish web > site, but in preparation for graduation and moving on to another job, we > need a web site that can be managed by my boss and coworkers who know > nothing of Java. > > Thus, I endeavored to find a solution that would be more stable (the > servlet engine was unstable from time to time, though it is highly > reputed as stable). Anyway, I chose PHP over everything else because of > it's resemblance to Perl and my boss' familiarity with Perl. Within > hours I was able to port the entire site from JSP to PHP with all the > previous functionality. (It took me much longer to design the original > site in JSP.) Within hours I was able to add even more functionality to > make it easier for them to maintain. > > This is not meant in any way to detract from JSP, just that PHP happens > to make JSP look rather inept in this particular case--especially since > PHP had built-in a lot of stuff that I had to build myself in Java code. > PHP does for web programming what Perl does for script programming. It > makes what should be easy, easy and yet still manages to make the hard > stuff easier or, at least, no harder. > > Excellent product. My appreciation goes to the authors and anyone else > who had a hand in this product. I have met few IT products that actually > stand up to my expectations after I have put hours and days of effort > into them--this one has done just that. > > Thanks, > Sterling > > > -- > 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 > >