I'm not working at the freelance world, so I don't know if my answer is valid. But I think any answer you get, will be right to the location they work in. In israel, there will be a big advantage for someone that knows PHP, over someone that knows python. I know this because I recently looked for a job, and could hardly find a python job. Now I got a job that allows me to work with web2py, but I got it as a PHP developer, and I managed to convince my boss, that it's better. Now I acctually asked people on my interviews, why PHP, and the most common answer was "we have wordpress / zend-cart / joomla / drupal / some other system written in PHP we need extending, and we're looking for someone that will extend it". This is acctually the most problematic aspect of web2py. Instant press is awsome. It still not wordpress. PyForum is great. It still not vBulletin. GrooverWiki is great. But it's not MediaWiki. The web2py book application is awsome.... Ummm... I don't have a PHP example. The web2py book is really one of a kind. Point is, there is one great advantage to PHP, over any other language: the things people did with it allready. As much as I love web2py, I could not tell someone to install kPax, instead of wordpress, to create a small company website.
On Jul 25, 8:26 pm, spiffytech <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm picking out a framework to use for freelance web development. Does > anyone use web2py in that sort of situation? How does it fare? Do you > find anything particularly limiting or particularly easy? How do > clients respond when you tell them you're building the site in Python > (not PHP), and that you're building it in one of the less-common > frameworks?
