[thelist] ColdFusion and PhP

[Philippe Jadin]

> I have to make decisions on PhP and ColdFusion.
> I am not getting it - why is ColdFusion talked about
> so much in the web developement world?
> What are the benefits of using PhP?
>
> Is ColdFusion doing something different to other
> products (it's competitor).

Without more background informations, I really only see two parameters here
: price and personnal preferences

- price : coldfusion is not free, php is. This obviously has "some impact"
on developement and production cost.

- personnal preferences : try them both. Look at the sources of a simple
application written in both langages, like (for example) a database'd
guestbook.

Don't forget the others tools too.

More than that is hard to tell, because it's really a matter of personnal
choices. Do you have programing experience? Will you work in a team? Do you
want a *nix or win* solution? Do you need commercial help?

In my case, price, opensource-ness, community, availability of docs were the
things I took into account.

I choose php, and now I'm converting to zope (which is not a langage by the
way, it's a concept).

Imho basically every web langages are the same (in short : only the syntax
is different). Choose the one you are the most confident with.

Good luck !

Philippe