Hey Rick... just some comments: A. I know 5 or 6 owners of rather large hosting companies (10-20000) and not one thought it was a good idea. The concept is nice, but utterly pointless in regards to the overhead and added complications involved... if you really want to share sessions between PHP and Coldfusion, it can be done. If you want to integrate something from PHP to CF, it can be done.
B. Like I mentioned, just use PHP. I don't see the need to have shared execution with this one at all. C. This brings us back to the question... what makes this a good idea? Why overly complicate something? I'm sure this might piss some people off, but I don't think Coldfusion is the be all and end all. I believe in using the right tool for the right job. Sometimes CF isn't up to the task and something else better suites the situation. The part of this conversation that scares me is that the whole thing runs around the idea of being able to swing PHP/.NET/Drupal (=]) guys over to CF because of what it could accomplish... and sorry to say, but that won't work either. PHP guys aren't used to PAYING for their environment... nor would any of them start to just because they see a few things that are neat. I've said this before and I'll say it again, Coldfusion will never take on the same amount of developers as PHP/.Net/Java while theirs a price tag involved for the standard edition. If they want a larger developers pool, than strip down the standard edition, give it away, and watch the money pour in for the added features and abilities of the Enterprise edition. And the funny part about how I know this... I was the PHP developer who felt that way before my current job. !k -----Original Message----- From: Rick Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page Kevin, Here's a couple of ideas that come to mind: A. You're a hosting company and it's a lot simpler to all of sudden be offering PHP and Ruby hosting without having to install the extra bits on the server. You have less maintenance and your clients programs run a bit faster than most other hosts. B. You're a corporate site with some PHP apps (or there's one you would like to use), again much simpler with fewer chance of complication. C. You're a corporate site with a mixture of CF and PHP and the VP wants to move everything to one environment ( PHP) and rewrite the CF apps. You can suddenly make a pretty good case for staying the course and running everything through CF-8. I am not saying integration isn't important too but I think Sean's onto something that could be much larger than you think. Rick Mason On 6/4/07, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The real million dollar question is why would you want to? Almost anything > PHP can do, CF can do. Almost anything CF can do, .NET can do. Almost > anything .NET can do, PHP can do. > > Unless you want to take advantage of the thousands of crappy opensource > PHP > apps that are out there, but if that's the case, save some time and just > open up your firewall. =] > > !k > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 8:45 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: OT: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page > > For those of you who don't know, Coldfusion is built upon Java. Someone > has > taken it upon themselves to write a Java library, called Quertus, which > parses PHP code. Someone else then built upon THAT and wrote a Coldfusion > library which references the Quertus library and allows you to combine PHP > and Coldfusion code on the same page, pass variables back and forth to > each > other and more. > > > http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/ColdFusion_8_running_ > PHP > > I don't know what the speed is (probably not as fast as the native zend > interpreter, but still...PHP code mixed in with CF code is pretty kick > ass. > I read that someone else has done the same thing for Ruby. > > ____________________________________ > > Andy Matthews > Senior Coldfusion Developer > > Office: 877.707.5467 x747 > Direct: 615.627.9747 > Fax: 615.467.6249 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.dealerskins.com <http://www.dealerskins.com/> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280105 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
