> Now it's been 7 years since I've done any PHP development. Am I being > ignorant by thinking the only reason why this guy wants me to develop in > PHP is for his own job security (since he doesn't know CF)?
Sure, that makes sense. Manage what you know. There's also many more PHP developers relatively speaking, which makes hiring for the team/replacement/maintenance easier. Or is > legitimate to keep "consistency" in the languages used within the > organization? That's a huge plus, but it's all relative. Some shops like to standardize, some like to pick the right tool for the job and pay the additional maintenance overhead, some like to go with a particular vendor/platform. Etc etc. FWIW, PHP today is *very* different from PHP circa 2000, just as ColdFusion is different today as opposed to in 2000.... Both have made the jump to objects, CF is really Java under the hood and PHP is headed there, and there's plenty of other changes to both. One thing I'd suggest is looking at the CAKE framework, which is one of the defacto choices for new PHP development (much like Rails is in the Ruby world or Django in the Python world). The big factor for me personally for an *accounting* project would be reporting. PHP has really poor options for reporting other than do-it-yourself HTMLy stuff. ColdFusion has pretty good options as of late and both .NET and Java have excellent options (JasperReports and Datavision being two great open source options from the Java world). Now if you're using something like Access or Crystal to generate the reports directly off the database, that's not an issue. -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint (blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:287183 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
