Not true, there are plenty of advantages either way. Since PHP and JSP are widely used and probably the 2 best options for scripting, I think it'd only be intelligent for us all to be well aware of them.
1) Availability. JSP server support is lacking at best. In the past 4 years, I've only come across 1 outside server that supported JSP and it was horribly difficult to convice our server people to put it on. The fact is, Tomcat is a royal pain and any other servlet engine is expensive (for small business or education standards). PHP's interpreter, however, could be installed and administrated by a juvinile monkey. Hence, more servers will support PHP 2) Loopholes are less likely in JSP. PHP leaves room for slopier code and I'm not impressed all that much with how tight the language itself is, even if used carefully. I shy away from it and move towards JSP whenever there is some important imformation being exchanged. 3) JSP is VERY reusable... PHP you really need to cut and paste. 4) PHP is easy to throw together fast, which is sometimes neccessary in the workplace. OK, there's the major ones I think. There are a lot mroe, but that'll give you the idea. Personally, I use both and encourage anyoen else to who has that luxury. -Daniel Lynn Todd Whitten wrote: > PHP has no advantages over JSP. Maybe this is something you could have > posted to the PHP mailing list? ; ) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Replacing JSP with PHP? > > what are advantages of PHP over JSP? > > -----Original Message----- > From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jiann-Ming Su > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Replacing JSP with PHP? > > Is it possible to replace JSP and use PHP to encapsulate our page rendering > code? We're running a java servlet that needs to be integrated with a PHP > front end. I've given up on trying to run php as a java servlet. I know > this is a strange request, but thanks for any tips. > > -- > Jiann-Ming Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] 404-712-2603 > Development Team Systems Administrator > General Libraries Systems Division > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff > JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST > DIGEST". > > Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://forums.java.sun.com > http://www.jspinsider.com > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff > JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST > DIGEST". > > Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://forums.java.sun.com > http://www.jspinsider.com > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > > Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://forums.java.sun.com > http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://forums.java.sun.com http://www.jspinsider.com
