Posted by Angelo Zanetti on 06/27/05 19:06

as well as a great templating engine: smarty (there are others as well)

Please let us know what the outcome is!!
thanks
Angelo

Anton Kovalenko wrote:

>PHP is open source. It's highly supported by lots of developers.
>It's free. There are many different libraries such as PEAR, for instance.
>There many free frameworks for creating convinient modular and easyly
>managebale applications both web and command line.
>I can name mojavi.org as a brilliant MVC pattern implementation for PHP5,
>propel (propel.phpdb.org)
>and metastorage (http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html) as
>OOtoR transformation frameworks.
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>As to ColdFusion, It seems to me that this technology is dead already.
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>Rick Emery wrote:
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>>My employer has (finally) decided to take full advantage of our
>>intranet, and wants to move from client-server applications to web-based
>>applications. To that end, we're trying to determine the best platform
>>for our applications. We're a Microsoft shop, with Microsoft SQL Server
>>2000 for all of our databases (that won't change any time soon, if
>>ever). Due to past experience that I won't get into, we (the Development
>>group) have all agreed that ASP.Net is out (at least for the short term).
>>
>>We had the opportunity to visit a local enterprise that has deployed
>>ColdFusion, and they couldn't stop singing its praises. I'm partial to
>>PHP, even after sampling Coldfusion, so what I would like is some
>>"ammunition" that I can take into a meeting to "sell" management on PHP
>>instead of ColdFusion. I've already been harping on the difference in
>>cost, so I'm looking for other points to go with. Besides, we'll
>>probably invest in Zend products if we choose PHP, and Macromedia has
>>government rates available; I don't have any numbers (yet), but the cost
>>difference may not be that great in the end.
>>
>>Any input would be greatly appreciated. Opinions are welcome (especially
>>from programmers with experience in both), but I have to "sell" it to
>>management (I'm already on the PHP side), so links to data or articles
>>comparing the two are best.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Rick
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