[thelist] Re: ColdFusion and PhP

[Peter Van Dijck]

my .02£
I agree with the personal preference remarks.
However:

1. If you are going to want to use the language as a front end to a JAVA 
layer (which does the business logic), Coldfusion seems the way to go.

2. If you want to develop complex websites, mmm... sorry, but PHP seems 
better. The reason is that I work with a bunch of programmers (all a lot 
better than me) with Coldfusion, and I have NEVER seen them use REAL 
templates. (e.g. containing only HTML and placeholders). They always do 
html mixed with content mixed with CFtags (e.g. business logic). That seems 
wrong to me, once you've seen the power of separating them out....
When I code a complex site, a real templating engine is a minimum. It seems 
to me (correct me if I'm wrong) that Coldfusion just doesn't allow for that 
in an easy way somehow.... It seems that Coldfusion, by making things 
slightly "easier", does make it harder to develop a real good website 
solution (where you can choose your template engine, your user 
authentication, your this and that...)

Flame me if you like, that's just been my experience so far...
Peter

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