tone, you ever thought about being a salesman ;?) |>-----Original Message----- |>From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Tony |>McDonald |>Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 11:45 AM |>To: Zope List |>Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope Vs PHP |> |> |>At 10:27 am +0000 8/11/99, Richard Moon wrote: |>>As someone who is evaluating various tools for producing dynamic web |>>pages linked to databases perhaps some of you might be able to guide |>>me. |>> |>>I know Zope and PHP aren't exactly equivalent - but under what |>>conditions would you favour Zope over PHP and vice versa ? |>> |>>Thanks in advance |>> |> |>PHP is faster. It's also a more 'conventional' web applications |>system (ie files generally get strewn around the file system - well |>at least they did with me!). This may or may not be a problem, you |>could use CVS to manage PHP files, whereas in Zope the versioning and |>undo feature is superb. |>Zope is fast enough. The database connectivity in Zope is easier than |>PHP (and more transparent, ie replace MySQL with Oracle), PHP wants |>too much handholding to get a DB query done. |> |>I'm leaning towards the idea that Zope is a very good system for |>distributed authoring *and management!* of materials, something that |>PHP would find much more difficult to do (it's based on the model of |>serving a file from a filesystem, whereas Zope serves objects, and an |>object can be a complex beastie). |> |>Getting a system up and running quickly is much easier to do in Zope |>than PHP (I wouldn't like to guess how long it would take a PHP |>programmer to get something like Phils' ZGold up and running - |>http://d031.ml.uwcm.ac.uk/z/zGold). |> |>A lot of products are becoming available for Zope now and they can be |>used as building blocks to create your own Web system - most PHP |>'products' tend to be full systems, ie a MySQL administrator suite. |> |>hasn't *really* answered the question, but HTH, |>Tone |>ps I've used PHP since it was PHP/FI and all the way through PHP3, |>and dropped it when I came across Zope... |>------ |>Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project |>http://nle.ncl.ac.uk/ |>The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5888 |>Fingerprint: 3450 876D FA41 B926 D3DD F8C3 F2D0 C3B9 8B38 18A2 |> |>_______________________________________________ |>Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org |>http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope |> No cross posts or HTML encoding! |>(Related lists - |> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce |> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) |>