[thelist] PHP

> I must say, I am falling in love with PHP.  So much quicker and easier
than
> Perl CGIs.
>
> Can anyone give me some drawbacks with using PHP for a
database-oriented
> website?


Things I've heard:

- No external object for output caching
- Because form values and environment vars and other vars are made
available as their name: $name rather than a collection:
collection["name"] or collection("name"), there are that many more
reserved words.


Basically, it looks really neat to me, and I have used it quite often
when I have to fool with *nix. What has stopped me from loving it is
that it is an independant language. Languages like ASP are 80%
established scripting language. PHP on the other hand... well...
http://php.net/quickref.php3

That scared me enough.


But many people swear by it, so if you have the time, go for it.

-M@