Re: Web developing choice

Geoff Muldoon wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:38:10 -0700, Michael Rothwell
> <marothwell_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >After working with OAS PL/SQL module for the past few years to get data
> >to the web (what my client wanted). I know there are faster
> >developement/execution products to get Oracle to the web. I'm vaguely
> >familiar with Cold Fusion and JDeveloper, and have seen posts on PSP.
> >What is the most commonly used approach out there right now. I will be
> >soon starting a new contract and I have some say over the technology
> >used. I'm basically looking for an aproach that has moderate to quick
> >development but is robust and fast when executed. I'll give up the
> >speed of development to have robustness and speed when deployed.
>
> I presume you mean PHP, not PSP. See:
> http://www.php.net/
>
> PHP is the preferred alternative to Microsoft ASP. Whereas ASP
> basically requires the use of the MS IIS Web Server (yuk), PHP runs
> beautifully with Apache (either compiled as part of the binary or as a
> module), so can run on any platform including UNIX and Windows. PHP,
> compiled with Oracle options, has a specific Oracle function set
> (OCI8), or most code can be written using a data abstraction library
> which makes it RDBMS-independent.
>
> If you use the PHP OCI8 function set, you can put your database and
> web/application server on separate boxes and use Oracle Client/Net8
> rather than ODBC for connectivity. More robust, better security. You
> can still use stored procedures (occasionally I have had too, because
> PHP can't quite to everything) or write data manipulation functions in
> PHP itself.
>
> I have used both OAS PL/SQL and PHP. PHP gives you massively more
> flexibility. Application development is much easier, as you can
> easily divorce page layout design (natively code in HTML) from data
> manipulation.
>
> In terms of robustness and speed, Apache-based solutions are hard to
> beat. PHP4 with the Zend optimizer is very fast.
>
> And it's free.
>
> Geoff M

I was referring to PSP (PL/SQL Server Pages). But thanks for the input on PHP.

Michael Received on Wed Aug 01 2001 - 15:34:42 CDT