Re: PHP Support Coming for iSeries!

Your benefit with PHP is that it is object oriented. So you could design 
your MVC. I am sure someone has had to have designed something by now. What 
PHP is really good and and down and dirty is for quickly designed websites. 

On 5/10/05, Aaron Bartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> The thing that I didn't like about PHP was the lack of a solid built-in
> framework (say MVC) like I have with Java coupled with Struts or JSF.
> Built-in might not be the right word, but in the time I was developing in
> PHP it seemed that it was just a step above raw CGI.
> 
> Note that I am aware of smarty (http://smarty.php.net/) which is very
> similar to CGIDEV2, and I have been using portions of the pear
> (http://pear.php.net/) package (mostly the DB portion).
> 
> I just never got the feeling that I would want to implement enterprise 
> level
> solutions in PHP, though it works great for small projects. But then 
> again,
> once you learn Java, JSF, and get a good IDE, well, developing Java web 
> apps
> becomes pretty straight forward and you have your tiers more or less built
> in.
> 
> Thoughts?
> Aaron Bartell
> 
> 
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