One big difference: in PHP you will have to write database-vendor specific code. The
code to use Sybase is different than SQLServer is different than Oracle, etc.
If portability is important, then that will be a problem.
At 12:29 PM 12/13/00 -0500, Michael Dinowitz wrote:
>As long as you write good code and follow all the security notes from the
>Allaire security zone, there is no security problem. From the tone and
>message of the email, he doesn't really care to hear the truth about it.
>To be honest, PHP has its strengths, but its still a script based language
>rather than a tag based one which means its slower to write than CF when
>integrating into HTML and doing output. Its DB work isn't all to good and
>the error handling is almost non-existent. If you look on the PHP site,
>there's actually a rather informative comparison of the two on some
>features.
>If the boss wants to listen and add PHP to your companies skill set, then
>I'd agree with him. If he just wants to dump all of the CF stuff for PHP,
>then argue with him about it. Bring your proofs and back it up with the fact
>that CF is accepted by the corporate industry while PHP isn't (yet).
>
>
>> The new boss has arrived in my department and of course he wants everyone
>to
>> switch from the awesome and all mighty cold fusion to .... PHP. We do need
>> some other strengths in our department for those clients who don't want us
>> to host their application or don't have cf on their server, but, he wants
>a
>> complete switch. Here is a glimpse into his last email:
>>
>> "It could be argued that both technologies have their strengths and
>> weaknesses. However, in the corporate IT department, CF is usually not an
>> option due to cost and security problems. I realize that changing
>> perceptions and old habits are sometimes difficult, but necessary.
>> Especially in our industry (high-tech).
>>
>> The need to deliberate the issue further is a mute point."
>>
>> Does anyone have any opinions on his security problems comment? It seems
>> that alliare is pretty good about getting patches up - or we have just
>been
>> lucky and not had any problems. And, would you agree that in the
>corporate
>> IT department cf is "usually" not an option?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any input.
>>
>>
>>
>
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