Solution: Macromedia should buy PHP! :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Sean A Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:31 am Subject: Re: CF - PHP comparisons?
> On Wednesday, Feb 12, 2003, at 07:42 US/Pacific, <"Hagan>,Ryan" wrote: > > I have to disagree that this is a "better" reference. Good > points are > > definitely made here, but it is very obviously ColdFusion- > centric. The > > purpose of these articles seems to be to convince one to buy > > ColdFusion, not > > compare ColdFusion with PHP, which was the original question. > > Well, it's very difficult to get a true, unbiased comparison of > any two > languages. First off, the reviewer has to be very familiar with > both > languages and has to have used them for similar projects. Anyone > who is > an avid supporter of any particular language is going to want to > show > that language is 'better' than the competition. > > > Paul, Consider the fact that you just asked the ColdFusion > listserve to > > compare CF and PHP. That's not really fair, as there is going to, > > generally, be a lot more support for CF than PHP here. > > Exactly! And if you go to a PHP listserv and ask them, they'll > tell you > CF is rubbish and PHP rocks. > > I use PHP for my personal site (no one seems to provide a full- > access > CFMX / Linux / mySQL set up for $10/month that matches the PHP / > Linux > / mySQL set up Hurricane Electric provides - my current ISP). I > don't > like PHP much, from a syntax point of view - for most of the same > reasons that I don't like Perl. As a language designer, I have > some > very strong preferences for syntax. I don't much like CF's tag > syntax > either but at least it's simple (and fairly consistent) - but > cfscript > is more to my taste. PHP has a lot of powerful low-level stuff > which is > missing from CF - but CF has a lot of powerful high-level stuff > that > requires much more work in PHP. CF has components, PHP has > classes. CF > has a wealth of third-party tags, UDFs and - hopefully soon - > CFCs. PHP > has a wealth of third-party libraries and modules. You can use > Fusebox > with both (yes, I will get around to writing up my experiences > converting my site to Fusebox!). You can now use Flash Remoting > with > both. For most of what I would want to do on my own site, I would > *prefer* the ease and power of CFMX but I can certainly live with PHP. > > As with most things, pick the best tool for the job based on > information to hand. Of course, if you only have a hammer, > everything > looks like a nail... > > Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
