Comments on: Why PHP?

By: chrisw

chrisw — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:08:31 +0000

Interesting article, and as an experienced programmer moving into PHP work, I’m inclined to agree with your view of PHP. FWIW, I’m finding the Zend Framework (1.5) a huge help in enforcing a solid MVC approach to developing my app, not to mention the many useful components in ZF generally. Just wish the documentation was a little better !

By: Amac

Amac — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:57:05 +0000

My sentiments exactly. I had a customer recently who brought a consultant to a contract discussion. The consultant’s first words were “So, why aren’t you using Ruby or Django. PHP is so linear and hard to maintain.” I have looked at Ruby on Rails, Django/Python and others, but I keep coming back to the community around PHP. I usually find several possible solutions to any given problem and then review/test them to determine the best fit for my application. I also have found a much greater abundance of humility combined with real-world knowledge in the PHP community. In the Rails community, I have met with a lot of arrogance and immaturity (granted, my experience is limited). I especially dislike the attitude in the Applesque videos on YouTube advertising Rails. A tool is only a tool. It’s how the tool is used that makes the difference in the end. And I know PHP!

By: brandon

brandon — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:24:02 +0000

I am planning on releasing a large amount of code into the wild pretty soon once I polish up my cms a little bit. I’m deploying a large website with it at the end of next month which will be a good benchmark for its performance. Either way, at the very least I’ll release a tarball with the current incarnation

By: philip andrew

philip andrew — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:21:59 +0000

Hi, do you share any of your code on SVN or Google Code? A lot of it is interesting, the PHPTAL, your Modular Directory Structure, all of this integrated on SVN would be great.

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