"Jani Taskinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > So what really ARE the needs of more advanced developers? > (I'm starting to sound like a broken record now :) > > --Jani > > Hi,
I like the PHP language the way it is with some exceptions. Private members and methods are essential from a security view-point, and perhaps application variables, but that's about it. My main problem with PHP's direction is that it seems stuck at the low-end of the corporate world. Let me explain. I'm developing extranets with PHP and occasionally I get a checklist of required features from a customer. Features such as: - clustering, - management of server farms, - transparent fail-over, - load balancing - application deployment without restarting server - advanced queueing - database connection pooling I believe that many of these features should probably not be part of the language, or are already available as separate libraries or can be implemented without modifying PHP, as Smarty has proved with templates. However there is no one central resource that explains where you can find the knowledge or source code to implement this. Is there any company addressing all these issues. Let me know! For example, one spec I had to comply for a recent proposal was - NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE. I looked at msession and I asked myself, does it provide support for a backup session server on failover? Reading the docs, I think not. Of course a database-backed session handler can provide failover support, but where can I get proven tested code that I know is reliable without having to write it myself? Does this mean that when i become more successful and get larger clients with Enterprise requirements I have to abandon PHP and switch to Java or MS.NET? I hope not. Regards, John -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
