Tim Roberts wrote: > "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i > >read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it > >is roughly based on Perl, of which i have mastery. > > > >i felt a sensation of neatness, as if php = Perl Improved, for a > >dedicated job of server-side scripting. > > The design of the PHP language is not too bad, and the standard library is > extensive. It is quite possible to write well-structured, class-based web > programs with PHP. > > However, it seems that almost no one actually does so. Virtually all of > the vast PHP code samples on the web are crap. Maybe the simplicity of the > language encourages inexperienced programmers who write spaghetti code > without a thought to the structure; I don't know the exact cause, but I > have seen it more often than not. > -- > - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
agreed, once you explain MVC, it's pretty hard to argue against it. Keeping from getting defaced is another matter. About a year ago, this page (or somethign very similar) was php.net's *homepage*, I almost fell over when i saw it. Moral of hte story, don't use shared server. http://www.php.net/security-note.php -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list