Hi Jason,
> not that i'm a huge fan of php, but on this point alone you
> shouldnt discount it.
I am not discounting it, quite the contrary - I am actively
evaluating PHP systems. Unlike Java, PHP is often mastered quite well
by artistic folks, and as a result there is a big choice of open
source products that look nice.
> more to the point, the cms system will be the limiting factor in db
> choice.
This is what I meant to say. I know that PHP-the-technology supports
other dbs, but developers opt to stick with LAMP. I've been burnt a
few times quite recently by MySQL light attitude to data integrity
(common sequence of events going like that: (1) submit a web form,
(2) get an error, (3) as now DB is broken, find the last backup and
restore it).
I know that newer versions of MySQL are better and I need to re-
evaluate my stand on that (and upgrade the server to Fedora Core 4),
but my intuition still tells me to avoid MySQL on my servers :-)
> have you considered a home grown system?
In fact I did. But then I thought it was stupid to write one from
scratch if there is dozens out there available for free. Now I am
starting to think that I may have been wrong on that :-)
Andrus
On Oct 28, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Jason Dwyer wrote:
> Andrus,
>
> php works fine with postgres and a number of other db's besides
> mysql: redhat linuxes will ship with a number of php packages,
> including php-pgsql, php-mysql and php-odbc.
>
> not that i'm a huge fan of php, but on this point alone you
> shouldnt discount it.
>
> more to the point, the cms system will be the limiting factor in db
> choice. i also prefer postgres to mysql, but for ready made
> systems, i dont think it matters too much, and of the open source
> cms's the vast majority will be on mysql.
>
> have you considered a home grown system?
>
> j
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