as well as a great templating engine: smarty (there are others as well) Please let us know what the outcome is!! thanks Angelo Anton Kovalenko wrote: >PHP is open source. It's highly supported by lots of developers. >It's free. There are many different libraries such as PEAR, for instance. >There many free frameworks for creating convinient modular and easyly >managebale applications both web and command line. >I can name mojavi.org as a brilliant MVC pattern implementation for PHP5, >propel (propel.phpdb.org) >and metastorage (http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html) as >OOtoR transformation frameworks. > >As to ColdFusion, It seems to me that this technology is dead already. > > >Rick Emery wrote: > > >>My employer has (finally) decided to take full advantage of our >>intranet, and wants to move from client-server applications to web-based >>applications. To that end, we're trying to determine the best platform >>for our applications. We're a Microsoft shop, with Microsoft SQL Server >>2000 for all of our databases (that won't change any time soon, if >>ever). Due to past experience that I won't get into, we (the Development >>group) have all agreed that ASP.Net is out (at least for the short term). >> >>We had the opportunity to visit a local enterprise that has deployed >>ColdFusion, and they couldn't stop singing its praises. I'm partial to >>PHP, even after sampling Coldfusion, so what I would like is some >>"ammunition" that I can take into a meeting to "sell" management on PHP >>instead of ColdFusion. I've already been harping on the difference in >>cost, so I'm looking for other points to go with. Besides, we'll >>probably invest in Zend products if we choose PHP, and Macromedia has >>government rates available; I don't have any numbers (yet), but the cost >>difference may not be that great in the end. >> >>Any input would be greatly appreciated. Opinions are welcome (especially >>from programmers with experience in both), but I have to "sell" it to >>management (I'm already on the PHP side), so links to data or articles >>comparing the two are best. >> >>Thanks in advance, >>Rick >> >> > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
