Here's a thread on that question at DevShed http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Zope/Intro/comments.html/c4198/ another thread on Zope vs PHP (and Midgard) http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Zope/Intro/comments.html/c1117/ good comp of php and zope <wrap> http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists/zope-archive.nsf/47ba74c812dbc5dd8025687 f0024bb5f/72a0bf52788b839f802568aa001ec64f?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,PHP </wrap> useful examination of spectra's strengths http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/011576.html some criticism of spectra http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/011589.html on using PHP and Perl inside Zope http://www.zope.org/Members/Mamey/PHP <wrap> http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists/zope-archive.nsf/47ba74c812dbc5dd8025687 f0024bb5f/179e21a385dbc69e802568ab005fc80a?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,PHP </wrap> hth Regards, GEORGE DONNELLY george at cyklotron.com http://cyklotron.com/ Thinking men cannot be ruled. --Ayn Rand > Does anyone have an idea of how it compares to Allaire's spectra? > Does anyone have experience with it (good or bad)? It seems to have a > pretty steep learning curve and I can't be bothered if it is going to limit > me somehow. It was build for news sites, I wonder how good it is for sites > where you want to add lots of little scripts yourself. I also wonder how > easy it is to integrate PHP scripts with it.