On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:56:32AM +0200, ropers wrote: > Ryan, Joachim (, others): > > You mentioned that you dislike PHP. > I would be curious to learn your reasons for this. > I'm not trying to instigate religious wars or the like, it's just that > my programming skills are mostly nonexistant <cough>GW BASIC & shell > scripts</cough> and I'm thinking of properly learning PHP, kind of as > an evolutionary step, up from XHTML. > > Should a coding n00b like myself avoid PHP like the plague, or do your > reasons only come into play once a certain level of programming > proficiency is attained? > > Thanks and regards, > --ropers > > PS: I probably could see that the mere fact that PHP does server-side > processing could be seen as a huge downside as opposed to ECMAscript / > AJAX, where processing occurs on the client side. OTOH, you're not > supposed to trust the client -- and I know that pretty friggin large > PHP-script deployments do exist, eg. MediaWiki/Wikipedia. (Then again, > WP uses a slew of Squid proxies...)
Since you included "others" above... To your post script, there's not all that much interesting you can do with client side scripts without backend support on the server. As for PHP vs. the rest, it depends on what your goals are. If you just want to learn something then try Ruby instead. It's cleaner, it's cooler. If you want to learn potential web development job skills then PHP ain't a bad thing to know. If you're looking to find canned scripts then PHP has an edge. If you're looking to develop web stuff for yourself then Ruby/Rails, Python/Zope, Perl/Catalyst are all, IMHO, better than PHP/Cake. Lots of people *love* PHP, but the common sentiment on this list doesn't seem to be love. I can work in PHP, but given the choice I'll pick something else. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
