Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Lie wrote: > > On May 22, 12:28 pm, NC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On May 21, 1:10 pm, notbob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> So, here's my delimna: I want to start a blog. Yeah, who doesn't. > >>> Yet, I want learn the guts of it instead of just booting up some > >>> wordwank or whatever. > >> Here's a simple computation to consider... WordPress' codebase is > >> approximately a megabyte of PHP code and megabyte of JavaScript code. > >> Assuming that the average line of that code is 50 characters long, you > >> are looking at 20,000 lines of code in PHP and as many in JavaScript. > >> Based on the notion that the average developer out there writes 100 > >> lines a day, either you're in for a two-year project or your product > >> is going to have seriously reduced functionality compared to something > >> that's been freely available for years. What's your choice? > > > Nope, the core functionality of a blogging software could be > > replicated in just a few lines of PHP codes, in the range of tens to > > hundreds of lines. If you're creating your own blogging software, you > > wouldn't seriously think you'd recreate all those things such as > > pingbacks, commenting system, etc, etc, etc. No, you'd start with some > > basic core functionalities: a few simple server side includes only. > > As he said - it's either a two man-year project or your product is going > to have seriously reduced functionality. It looks like you are opting > for the latter. > > Also, you still need to write the server-side includes. But they won't > do nearly enough for everything WordPress does.
If the OP wants to learn the guts of the blog or to implement the blog from scratch, Python/Django would be a better choice than PHP. The reason is that he can reuse and customize existing high quality components for all these auth/auth, admin, comments, etc, etc, etc. Another reason is that Python and Django encourage very clean design while PHP is too often ends up in "spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML". 2 man/year in PHP == 2 man/week in Python/Django. And there are Python/Django blog applications that already do almost everything (and maybe more) that WordPress does. http://byteflow.su/ is one of them (IMHO the most promising). Ivan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
