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Re: Advantages and disadvantages of PHP?

Source: http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/PHP/comp.lang.php/200802/msg01174.html

From: Jerry Stuckle

Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:45:46 0500

Jonathan Sachs wrote:

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:27:05 +0100, Gilles Ganault

wrote:

First, are you totally free to choose a language, or are there someconstraint somewhere that would narrow things down?

Either/or. I'm not asking in the context of a particular project or

client. I'm looking for guidance on when to select this tool and when

to look for another.

Select the tool which meets your needs. Sometimes it's PHP, sometimes Java, sometimes something else.

You an only make an intelligent selection when you are familiar with all of the products you're choosing from

yourself. Others cannot make that decision for you.

Right now I'm learning PHP because I want to learn a particular

application that is written in it, and also because these days it

appears to be a basic development skill. I am trying to assess what

role it will play in my professional life.

Only you can determine that.

For instance, if

you'll host your app on a shared server, just about every hoster

offers PHP, while other languages are much more rare.

The hosting service I use offers ASP.NET even with its least expensive

ecommerce plan, at $13.95/month. I don't know how common that is,


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but for me, it establishes that alternatives are readily available.

Then become familiar with the rest of the market. Do some research. You'll find, for instance, that while your

hosting company offers ASP.NET, their offer in fairly rare, and their price much above equivalent hosting

offers in other languages.

Of course, a particular client or its preferred hosting service could

limit me to PHP, which would determine my choice of language if I

wanted to keep that client.

True, unless you can convince them to change. But you need to have good reasons to do so, and a good

relationship with your client.

Finally, what language do you already know? In terms of productivity,

Python is probably the best, because it's very rich while offering a

very simple syntax, while PHP is much more common simply because it's

been offered by hosters for about ten years now.

Well, let's see. My background is mainly in PC software development,

which influences the languages I know. Starting with the most recent,

C#, JavaScript, Java, C++, Visual Basic for Applications, C, FORTH,

BASIC, PL/1, SNOBOL3, BAL, FORTRAN IV. Plus a few minor ones that

I've forgotten.

The web is pretty restrictive ... so ultimately, it

doesn't make much of a difference what language you choose...

In a strictly technical sense that may be true, but many other

considerations come into play. You've mentioned a couple: support by

hosting services and compatibility with applications. I might also

have to consider maintainability, portability, and acceptance by

clients at various levels of technical sophistication.

Speaking technically, it seems to me that PHP is likely to be a poor

choice for largescale services where hundreds or thousands of users

will be hitting the web site at the same time. I'm guessing, though,

and I wouldn't know how to judge how large is too large. Perhaps

there are other areas where PHP is particularly weak or strong, which

I do not yet know enough to wonder about. Hence, my question.




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Not at all. It works as well as any language and better than many.

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