Thursday, March 11, 2004
I have just started a new project for which I am going to use PHP for the first time, for starters here is some help for people wishing to run PHP on OS X courtesy of Minh Huynh of Macromedia. I followed the instructions to enable PHP and it worked first time, very useful. Also for a list of useful resources on PHP head over to PHP.netI am new to server-side development and I chose Coldfusion initially as the learning curve was in a different league to PHP or ASP, then when I really got going with it realised that just because it is simple to code basic web applications doesn't mean that it isn't powerful or fast as CF'ers around the globe are currently proving. Unfortunately Coldfusion hosting is still a little pricey compared to PHP as this is open source and sometimes clients just don't want to move their site to a more expensive host and don't want to hear about CF, PHP or ASP they just want a solution...now please! So here I am trapped in world that I have to understand in 3 weeks or else...
So far I have been using Dreamweaver (MX) extensively to build my queries and looking at the code it creates and then going to resources such as HotScripts and comparing the code there. It is definitely more complicated code created for server connections and passing form and URL variables but as someone told me the other day if you are building sites in Coldfusion then you already understand the logic... true and although I am struggling at times as I haven't managed to get the O'reilly book yet, I have managed to create what I want so far. I'm not dissing Coldfusion and I'm not biggin' up the PHP massive, I am merely stating that it is possible to cross over without too much pain providing you understand what is going on behind the scenes.
Jon 1:07 PM Permalink