I totally agree with your view. PHP does not bring in any "added value" into this project. The primary impetus behind me using PHP was my personal liking towards PHP. But this is a good point to ponder upon - what benefits does PHP offer to the academic community over traditional cgi tools.
One thing is the ease of configuration and deployment of PHP. As someone doing research, I do not want to get bogged up with the overwhelming intricacies involved with installing and configuring a servlet or configurting a .net environment. At least I find them too complex. PHP on the other hand saves so much time, that I can just concentrate on writing the scirpt and generating the result instead of googling on how to troubleshoot a misbehaving cgi program. And I kind of disagree with you about the overhead issue. I did try a servlet running on a TomCat and I could say PHP on a Apache was not too bad at all. And applets are a big security headache. Besides I am not sure if there are any licensing issues involved with Java. Any other inputs for the list? I can use some ideas for my papers. ha ha.. Cheers, Prathap ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Richard Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Prathaban Mookiah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 14:50:11 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: [PHP] Remote Robot Control with PHP > On Tue, October 31, 2006 2:54 pm, Prathaban Mookiah wrote: > > alone to do the entire job due the high delay it takes to connect to > > the > > telnet port on the robot, (I adopted the PHPTelnet class written by > > Antone > > Roundy - http://www.geckotribe.com/php-telnet/), I could not resist > > using it > > for some part of the application. > > > > So the model I used for my purpose is this: > > > > Browser ---------> WebServer ---------> Java --------> Robot > > AJAX PHP > > As cool as this might be, and as much as I love PHP, I have to > suggest that PHP has little "Added Value" here, other than as an academic > exercise, as you have presented it... > > I think you would want to express what your perceived added value of > PHP in the process is, as I would expect that you'd just have AJAX > talking to Java, or Java applets or whatever, with no PHP, and > achieve the same output with less overhead. > > So what's the compelling added value of PHP here? > > -- > Some people have a "gift" link here. > Know what I want? > I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. > http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch > Yeah, I get a buck. So? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ------- End of Original Message ------- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
