At 07:10 AM 11/24/2003 -0800, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 17:39, Paul Howell wrote:
At 02:14 PM 11/23/2003 -0800, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
It's not hard to understand why LAMP became the dominant method of creating web apps: it leveraged existing skills and assets. But Zope reflects much of what's been learned about web apps *after* LAMP caught on. You *can* use Zope as a high-octane PHP, but Zope is also capable of managing data in new and more interesting ways.
If you're more comfortable with RDBMS/LAMP development, use that. But know that there is also value to breaking that mold.
FWIW,
Dylan
Thanks Dylan, I couldn't agree more. In particular, I like using an object-based data approach where there is a lot of disparate information to gather together about a certain topic... for example, information related to one customer (past orders, preferences, personal info other than sensitive types). Then a simple template without complex SQL queries can gather all the information at once from the Customer object for display when that customer is with you on the telephone (or chat/IRC/whatever). =Paul