[Zope] Zope Vs PHP

[Phil Harris]

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...
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|>Dr Tony McDonald,  FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project 
|>http://nle.ncl.ac.uk/
|>The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5888
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