PHP for the enterprise

PHP5: Ready For The Enterprise? (via Scott) discusses forthcoming improvements in PHP5 and asks if they will lead to acceptance of PHP as a suitable language for enterprise applications. It looks like a killer factor could well be PHP’s improved Java and .NET integration abilities. Write the back-end in Java/.NET and use PHP for the front end—that way you get a powerful web-specific scripting language for the front end of your site. Then if you ever need to change technologies on the back end your front end code can be reused.

Posted 7th December 2002 at 11:16 pm

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Hmm, the article only implies .NET integration, and I'm a little uncertain about how the engine rewrite will improve speed for those PHP scripts written by coders that acutally understand and use references in PHP... the artilce implies that they don't really exist at the moment. Not sure about how the masses will feel about thier favourite C like web scripting language turning into a fully object oriented language... that's possibly going to flood the world with bad OO programmers.
Swannie - 8th December 2002 21:14 - #

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