It seems to be first choice for new projects in my area, I haven't seen a new CF or ASP site for a while. I'm sure price has a lot to do with it, but it is simpler to learn than ASP and an average computer graduate will pick it up in no time.
Some of the PHP applications are very impressive, I have been playing around with Xoops (http://www.xoops.org), if you have access to a server that will run it I recommend having a look. For many websites it has all the functionality needed and adding modules for increased functionality is a matter of a mouse click - depressingly simple for those of us who make a living from codeing :( > -----Original Message----- > From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 June 2003 20:24 > To: CF-Community > Subject: How far can Zend take PHP? A Threat to CFMX? > > > "PHP -- the popular open-source scripting language designed > to create Web pages on the fly -- is having a banner year. By > some accounts, it is now being used in more than 9 million > Web sites worldwide. " > > "and in the United States PHP appears to be pulling ahead of > Cold Fusion MX to claim the spot behind ASP, John Meyer, > senior analyst at Forrester Research, told NewsFactor. " > > "Zend's core product is Zend Studio, an advanced, integrated > development environment for PHP coding. " > > "Zend also sells the Zend Safeguard Suite, which enables the > protection and mass distribution of commercial PHP > applications, and the Zend Performance Suite, which features > dynamic content caching, code acceleration and > file-compression technologies. > Recent releases of the Safeguard Suite have provided greater > usability and different methods of license validation, such > as licensing per server, licensing based on timeouts, and > trialware, Young said. " > > It's interesting that Zend and Sun seem to have formed some > partnership that facilitates Java based business logic and a > PHP front-end. > > I wasn't aware that PHP was making such inroads into web > application development. I've looked at the language, and it > certainly isn't as easy to pick up as CFMX.It reminded me of > my Pascal/VB programming days a long time ago. Is it doing so > well simply because it is free? > > Full article here: http://makeashorterlink.com/?P33122E05 > > -Gel > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
