[Zope] RE: Any comments from ex-PHP developers?

[Frederic Faure]

At 11:21 17/12/2002 -0500, "Wankyu Choi" <wankyu@neoqst.com> wrote:
>I don't consider myself an *ex*-PHP developer, but just wanted to share
>my thoughts.

Thx a bunch Wankyu for sharing you thoughts on PHP vs. Zope. As a matter of 
fact, I'm playing with PHP + FastTemplate + MySQL, and it looks 
interesting. I still need more about what Zope would offer in addition to this.

To sum up what you wrote:
Pro's
- Zope makes it easier to separate logic and presentation : honestly, I 
don't see the difference between PHP scripts outsourcing display to 
templates and Zope + DTML/ZPT
- Python is truly OOP : What is missing in PHP4? Multiple inheritance?

Con's
- there are a lot more PHP developers than Zope developers, hence more docs 
and more help in case of need
- Zope uses its own DB instead of a filesystem. But then, nobody complains 
when data are saved in other DBMS's, so why do they complain about ZODB?
- ZPT is a bit slow, but maybe as slow as PHP and some templating engines

Thx again
Fred.