RE: [PHP-WIN] anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub.

Nice to know that some well known pc magazine wants to test PHP. Not so nice to know that people testing software for a major computer magazine don't know how to read the manual. Installing as an ISAPI module is not THAT difficult (Or am I a genius?). At least I don't know anyone having problems with that. And besides the majority of people on the PHPWIN mailing list seem to be capable of performing the steps in the readme file. The second comment they make is that "The normal way to do database programming is through an abstraction layer such as ADO or JDBC But the PHP way is to use a database-specific API." Note that there ARE libraries available that do this abstraction for you and on the other hand it sometimes is nice to be able to optimise for a specific database. The flexability of PHP is one of it's strengths and not (in my opinion) a weekness. The two points they complain about are both pretty well known and no longer a real problem. (The ISAPI version of PHP is getting better and better but still not the same as the linux version). I won't comment on the Zend products as I actually don't use them. Conclusion. The story is not a review of a product but a review of the knowledge of the people working at ZD. Robert Klinkenberg