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From: Adam Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 2:04 PM
Subject: cf vs php
I've seen a lot of "cf vs asp" stuff floating around, but I was wondering if
anybody had seen anything about cf vs php. It seems like it would be good
scripting language to pick up only because everything you need to run a php
application is free excluding the minimal amount of hardware you would need.
It appears to resemble coldfusion more than asp does so I'm wondering if
anybody has had any experience with comparing the two.
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I will take a stab at this one. I have used Php on a more limited scale
but I do think its a rather nice language, just not as 'quick' to develop
for. Here goes some stuff. this is not complete or in no way anything
but things off the top of my head.
ColdFusion is tag-based, Php is more like.. ASP in syntax. eliminating
some of the ugliness of ASP IMO.
Php has real live functions. Php, has easy access to a spell checker
built in.
Php has WDDX utilities available to it. i forget what it can deserialize
data to. Php, is implmenting in Php4, an OO system that is
really quite nice. In Php4 the speed is supposed to be increased a lot.
Php, has support for socket programming. Php can plug into apache
via an apache module.
Php has modules to connect to most any database available to the
*nix world and it is also portable to NT. Note it is native
to *nix and Its much better designed to work on a *nix environment
as far as production goes. (IE: Linux).
Php is free. You get the source to php.
Php has PDF manipulation functions.
There is a free XML parser availalbe to PHP.
PHP has a debugger built in.
PHP has memory and semaphore functions.
PHP has COM support functions to invoke and use COM objects
PHP has built in GIF functions to create GIF's
PHP has classes and objects.
This is just a little list, Ill assume you guys are familiar with ColdFusion
and let you figure out the comparison on your own. Writing code
for PHP, is not really that terrible. Its got a Perl/C like syntax
and its not as easy for a newbie to pick up and.. its prevalent on a
*nix platform. And.. if you could nto guess PHP is a HTML pre
processor just like ColdFusion. It performs many of the functions
as ColdFusion offering a very rich set of services to a able minded
programmer :)
Jeremy Allen
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