What can beat it?

stuart · Guest

I for one cannot state any other scripting language that can out preform PHP for website/intranet applications. I mean - ok perl, asp, coldfusion and jsp all have there place, out of them Perl is the closest to PHP in terms of Opensource/Compatibility, but even Perl has seen its days.
Let face it PHP is simply the best around.

stuart

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this213 · Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 3

OK, pull all instances of the word "The" from the wikipedia.org web site with PHP. Write an application to render 3D graphics with PHP. How about even showing the user's internal IP address with PHP. OK, OK, I'll get a bit more realistic: How about connecting to a Domino server?

My point here is that it's not a question of which language is "better", it's a question of using the right tool for the job. Perl blows PHP away in terms of functionality, a better comparison could be made between PHP and ASP (and, of course, PHP blows away ASP).

FYI: Perl sees plenty of time on the back end and it's not likely to be replaced any time soon - and certainly never by PHP.

roberts · Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 2

PHP, while loosely based on C and Perl, has never faced the overwhelming complications ASP has.

PHP is an object oriented language - though scripts need not necessarily be developed that way (there are still a vast number of developers preferring procedural programming, and PHP caters to both schools).

PHP is both cross platform and open source, available for every major operating system and works with most web servers. It is easily extendable by anyone capable of coding in C, and comes pre-bundled with more functionality than ASP could ever offer. Simple capabilities, such as FTP, data compression, file uploads, XML, MD5, encryption and email are not included in ASP and require expensive, third-party packages to be installed. All of this functionality and more are built right into PHP. Complex functions such as dynamic images, IMAP, SNMP, dynamic flash, PDF, native access (non ODBC) to Oracle, Ovrimos, Postgre, Sybase, mySql, MSSQL, Ingres, Interbase and Informix databases, LDAP, and sockets, just to name a few, are available for free to any installation of PHP, but are not (and probably never will be) available with ASP.

irislogic · Joined: 29 Mar 2010 Posts: 2

NOW it's the best but I'm sure that within 5 years, something better will come up. That's the cycle of technology and PHP isn't exempt from this. If nothing new comes up then just a better version of it will be developed.