Re: [seul-edu] Site tools for Schoolforge

[Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:10:47AM +0930, Michael Hall wrote:

> I know we all find what we're familiar with easiest, but Zope is really a
> much more complicated thing to set up and maintain than a PHP application,
> for no real gain. Using phpWeblog, a fully functioning newslog/portal
> type site can be up and running in half an hour. And even if that is
> debateable, far more people can use PHP and maintain PHP code than
> Zope/Python.

Well, no, that's not really the case. PHP gets quite ugly after a
while. Zope benefits from Python's object-oriented nature, making it a 
lot easier to work with.

If you want to make a serious web application, I'd say that
out-of-the-box solutions aren't going to cut it, and that unless you
think -really- hard about it before you code, PHP isn't the right
language.

I've got nothing against PHP, just against people that think they're
experts and go about writing crappy applications. That's something
that can happen with a Zope application too, it's just a bit harder.

   - andrew

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