Posted by windandwaves on 08/26/05 14:06

Toby Inkster wrote:
> 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 hopelessly out of date compared to, for example, dot.net.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).

Hi Toby

Thank you for your indepth reply. Cool, good news from you.

I mean, I only use about 3% of PHP and MySql to do 90% of my work so I think
you only really see the difference every now and then when you want to do
something fancy.

I am really interested to start programming more Object Oriented (I find it
hard to understand), but I think I do this naturally a little, as I am
always focussing on building a generic library of functions with a small
execution list for my actual application.

Thanks again for your positive words ;-)

- Nicolaas

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