Reviews of PHP

1. 
   AntiochMedia

   Reviewing 5.3.0 Alpha 1 (Aug 1, 2008)

   UniversityofKentucky: The following PHP based app is free and uses FPDF. It will directly convert an HTML page to PDF which is extremely useful and it DOES do a very very good job:
   
   http://www.tufat.com/s_html2ps_html2pdf.htm
2. 
   guti

   Reviewing 5.2.6 (May 2, 2008)

   Lots of nice features natively of by using extensions. Pretty easy web development.
   
   Some bugs exists version after version, due to its complexity, by they tend to be fixed early.
   
   In terms of speed, in the beginnings, it was faster than ASP, and on pair with Coldfusion. Nowadays, it has outperformed Coldfusion, but is not as fast as ASP.NET.
3. 
   Briantist

   Reviewing 5.2.5 (Nov 13, 2007)

   You can't find a better language than PHP.
   
   Used to C++? PHP can do your OO programming.
   
   Like your procedural language like BASIC or MODULA2? PHP can do it...
   
   PHP, of course, works brilliantly with mySQL, which gives the world LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
   
   PHP is also a great AJAX backend too.
   
   I've used many langages and PHP is all of them!
4. 
   acey99

   Reviewing 5.2.3 (Jun 1, 2007)

   I've used Both PHP & ASP
   
   PHP has most things built in if not you can add it, usually FREE.
   
   ASP relies on MS & other vendors to add to it & usually costs $$$.
   
   PHP = C/Perl Based
   ASP = VB Based.
   
   you be the judge.
5. 
   UniversityofKentucky

   Reviewing 5.2.3 (Jun 1, 2007)

   Acey - I agree that FPDF is excellent. I use/love it. Only caveat is it hasn't been updated since 12/04. Still I won't complain about freeware.
   
   ds0934 - You are correct about the benefits of various scripting languages. But it's ignorant to rank PHP low b/c you prefer ASP and, as you indicated, you have limited experience with PHP. I have limited experience with ASP, but wouldn't give it a mediocre rating b/c of that.

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