Comments for Why Choose PHP? at http://www.blogfullbliss.com , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.blogfullbliss.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:59:33 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.blogfullbliss.com/Why-Choose-PHP#comment-283 Thank you for your comment. I am very pleased that my post has gotten such a wide variety of responses! To reply to your PHP comments :) PHP is very scalable it can be used to run enterprise grade applications. Scalability comes down to programming and design more then the programming language itself. PHP also makes use of regular expressions through function calls and use as a Boolean operator. PHP allows for mixed values yes. I believe this is a positive feature and not a negative. It does mean its less strict then other traditional languages which you have mentioned. However again this comes down to programming practices and not the language itself. While not specifically specifying that $foobar is an int you can just go and say $intfoobar. Hope that helps :) - Sean Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:48:55 +0100 http://www.blogfullbliss.com/Why-Choose-PHP#comment-282 You can't compare PHP to Perl or say one is better then another because these two are used for different purpose and are completely different scale languages. Perl uses mostly regular expressions and that is the reason it is quite difficult to learn. In PHP you only use Regs when you need to verify a string such as email address. In perl you can create much more scalable applications then in PHP. In PHP you basically can return mixed values or anything from a function (string, bool, int) and in Perl, C++, JAVA for that matter you only return what you described when started the function. And last but not least perl is not a scripting language. - Gil Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:48:43 +0100 http://www.blogfullbliss.com/Why-Choose-PHP#comment-263 in my experience with a few minor tweaks to PHP and Apache it can handle a significantly higher load on less hardware then IIS and ASP. I am not saying ASP is evil or the wrong solution, it also has many benefits which PHP cannot match. I work in a .NET shop so I don't think I am biased ;) - Sean Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:33:06 +0100 http://www.blogfullbliss.com/Why-Choose-PHP#comment-228 Obviously everyone is entitled to their opinion, but come on. ASP.Net has been proven to be many times faster than PHP-- even when PHP is using Zend. I've got nothing agains MySQL-- I use it almost as much as MS SQL, but let's be honest... PHP is a slow mess that compares more with classic ASP is form and speed. - NickG Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:08:10 +0100 http://www.blogfullbliss.com/Why-Choose-PHP#comment-227 Good to see a new article but unfortunately it's still one article in one month :( Keep writting articles for BFB, could be a reference :( - PaulHenri Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:17:18 +0100 http://www.blogfullbliss.com/Why-Choose-PHP#comment-224 Great to see you back, been wondering when a new post was gonna happen :) Good timing as well, I happen to be using a lot more PHP lately. I'd love to see those tutorials be about things such as querying and CMS(ing?). Peace - Murray Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:57:42 +0100 http://www.blogfullbliss.com/Why-Choose-PHP#comment-223 Nice article! I completely agree with you, PHP is one of the best programming languages and one of the easiest to learn, for me it took 3 months from 0 to a complete CMS (of course, I've had past experience with C++) - Robert Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:44:32 +0100 http://www.blogfullbliss.com/Why-Choose-PHP#comment-222 Great post Sean! Someone had to update this site eh? I will write a new post soon as well! Maybe finish off that free Wordpress theme. - Adrian Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:33:19 +0100