1. Because we like php; it's a faster rapid development environment than any
of the environments you mentioned and has much shallower learning curve,
hence developer assistants cost less :) and are easier to find.
2. Because there's a ton of cool software in the php language out there we
want to exploit and it's not available in Java.
3. Because php lets me go home at 5pm and Java never does :-). Even though
I like Java alot, I don't like it enough to sleep with it..!
Everything you say is true but....
I spent the first part of my day trying to get W2K/IIS/PHP working as an ISAPI module, I spent the second half of my day trying to get it working as an apache module (still crashing hard).
Maybe what' really needed is to build in a web server into php itself. That way there is only one thng to install and configure
:wq
Tim Uckun
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