Discussion: PHP versus JSP

From: Kevin (javarox2000_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: 29 Mar 2004 06:15:01 -0800

Hi! I recently completed a graduate level Java class at a local
university. For our class project my group built a web-based
application. Basically, the application would let a manufacturing
company sell any 'extra' inventory to any authorized user via the
internet. The users could log in, view the inventory available, and
make a bid on any of the inventory available. At the end of the day,
the highest bidder 'wins' that inventory and would receive an email
saying as much. The customer could then log in again and enter a
purchase order number and a sales order would be generated.

This application was pretty basic. We used MySQL, Tomcat, and JSP. I
especially liked working with JSP (give me JSP over servlet
programming anyday!). However, a friend of mine said that he would
rather use PHP for web-based apps and asked me what I thought of
re-doing the app using PHP. Well, I've never really done a lot with
PHP (other than go through one of those 'Learn PHP in 24 hours' books)
so I'm not sure what the advantage or disadvantage would be in doing
that. I'm not even sure if PHP could be used to acess MySQL or other
databases (my book didn't get into that).

This brings me to my question: What are your thoughts on JSP versus
PHP? I'm not an expert on either one, but I'd be interested in the
thoughts of others on these two different web development tools.

Thanks and have a great week!

Kevin

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