Re: why php

From: Cameron (cam_at_foo.bar.invalid)
Date: 11/28/04

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    Hilarion wrote:
    >>Php is better because it is FREE,
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    > IIS and .Net Framework are free too.
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    >>Serverside and can interface with a lot of RDBMS.
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    > ASP and ASP.Net are too.
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    >>If you have any experience of C then php is for you because it follows a very similar Syntax as C.
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    > You can use C# or JScript in ASP, which are similar to C also.
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    >>Example: Have you ever tried doing URL rewrites in ASP. In php You dont, you do it in the server config, no need to install DLLs
    >>and the rewriting is 30 times faster.
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    > I believe you are talking about mod_rewrite, which has not much to do with
    > PHP, but with Apache.
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    >>Peronally I think Perl and Python are the business
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    > Personally I don't, but who cares?
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    >>but php has ease of use and is easier to learn.
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    > Yes, it is. That's why I prefer PHP over ASP, JSP, Perl etc.
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    > Hilarion
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    Firstly doesn't IIS require licenses depending on how many people use
    it? I seem to recall that being the case back in the day when I thought
    ASP was hot stuff ;)

    Perl is a great language, powerful as hell, but it wasn't written for
    the Internet hence the name "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language".

    ASP isn't a language in its own right, it's more of a server interface,
    ASP requires VBScript/Javascript etc... to operate.

    In the end ASP and PHP comes down to a judgment call and what technology
    is available although PHP is known to be faster. Perl as I said is very
    powerful, however the amount of work that is required to get CGI scripts
    up and running is quite a bit more demanding compared to that of PHP.

    To some up some of PHP's finer points, it is fast*, it is designed for
    rapid development specifically for the Internet, it can be moved to
    other platforms than which it was designed on in most cases and is
    extendable.

    Oh and on a different note, I am evaluating "Zend Studio", my god that's
    a good PHP IDE, and when I have some spare cash I am fairly sure I will
    buy it.

    ~Cameron

    *But only as fast as the person that writes it.

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