Posted by Toby Inkster on 08/26/05 10:10

windandwaves wrote:

> I only do php and mysql, but recently someone told me that these are
> hopelessly out of date compared to, for example, dot.net.

Don't listen to them. They've been sucked in by the Microsoft marketing
machine.

Look towards PHP 5 -- it expands the object-oriented facilities in PHP.
Many PHP developers have recently focused on making PHP more suitable for
large-scale projects (possibly because the original developer of PHP has
been hired by Yahoo, and Yahoo are moving a lot of their development over
from an in-house language to PHP) and PHP 5 is the result.

Also, do have a play with PostgreSQL. If you're used to MySQL then you
shouldn't have much of a leap, as they both use the SQL standard as a
query language. PostgreSQL supports far more complicated queries than
MySQL, and much bigger databases (although MySQL is catching up in both
those areas).

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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