My two cents:
I used Zope a while back for a university project, and I've been using
PHP for the best part of a year. Zope is very similar to PHP, but Zope
is better suited for the novice web designer / developer. Zope makes it
easy to interact with databases and allows you to iterate through a
result set using HTML-like tags (DTML) like:
<some HTML>
<dtml-in getAllMyData>
<b><dtml-var getAllMyData["name"]</dtml-var></b>
</dtml-in> <!-- don't remember the exact syntax -->
<some more HTML>
Simple web application require very little or no programming. It also
allows you to edit the (HTML) source via a web browser, which (too some)
is an attractive feature. Zope is good for silly little DB apps, and
coding in Python is easy (although the syntax is probably a LOT
different to anything you've used before). AFAIK, it can do everything
that PHP can, but I believe that PHP is faster & it's definitely more
widely used and has a bigger user base.
Lee recommends PHP any day.
- Lee
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