Posted by Erwin Moller on 11/16/07 18:27

Roedy Green wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:35:35 -0800, flarosa <frank@franklarosa.com>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>> I'm wondering if I can get a reasonably civil (without starting any
>> huge wars) opinion on how server-side PHP compares to server-side
>> Java.
>
> PHP is for small projects, maybe at most a forum.. J2EE is for giant
> ones. You need to know a lot less to get your first PHP database
> project working.
>
> It is better, which is better a water ski boat or an oil tanker. It
> depends what you want to do.
>

PHP for fora at most?
You must be joking/trolling.

I have written big stable mission critical applications running in
serious companies, with only PHP/Postgresql. They still run and perform
greatly up to today.
I am sure a lot of the folks in here did the same.

If you think PHP can only handle a forum, that says a lot about your
understanding of PHP, not PHP itself....
It is a totally untrue observation.

I have done a lot of work in both languages, and I deliver about 2-5
times faster in PHP than in J2EE.
But maybe that says something about MY understanding of J2EE.
;-)

Bottomline is that PHP is a lot easier to learn than Java, so a lot of
bad programmers program in PHP, since they don't get Java.
That is not PHP's fault, but leads to an army of avarage/bad programs in
PHP, and also give PHP a silly name to a certain extend.

It is totally 100% possible to program right in PHP AND make complex big
industry strength applications.

Why on earth do you claim a forum is the best PHP can do?

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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