Nice to know that some well known pc magazine wants to test PHP.
Not so nice to know that people testing software for a major computer
magazine don't know how to read the manual.
Installing as an ISAPI module is not THAT difficult (Or am I a genius?). At
least I don't know anyone having problems with that. And besides the
majority of people on the PHPWIN mailing list seem to be capable of
performing the steps in the readme file.
The second comment they make is that "The normal way to do database
programming is through an abstraction layer such as ADO or JDBC But the PHP
way is to use a database-specific API."
Note that there ARE libraries available that do this abstraction for you and
on the other hand it sometimes is nice to be able to optimise for a specific
database. The flexability of PHP is one of it's strengths and not (in my
opinion) a weekness.
The two points they complain about are both pretty well known and no longer
a real problem. (The ISAPI version of PHP is getting better and better but
still not the same as the linux version).
I won't comment on the Zend products as I actually don't use them.
Conclusion.
The story is not a review of a product but a review of the knowledge of the
people working at ZD.
Robert Klinkenberg
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