After much insistence from the other other guy in the Hypermedia Group Project, I've been looking into PHP. I don't really like PHP, because it means mixing the source code for the application and the HTML and layout and all that together in a big ball of mud. Yuck. It seems to be good for a quick and dirty application though, which is both good and bad.
Good: less time to create the project, and more time to clean and tidy and document and get a better grade. Bad: Once a portion of the code is done, it is more difficult to change and edit/update it.
And we'll be stuck with a single layout for the web pages once we get the PHP in them. That's not such a good thing, because it means that changing things will be more difficult. Perhaps if we get the design finalized, and good, then we won't be making too many changes.
Still, it seems yucky.
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I agree, PHP is not ideal. But it's the way web layout is going I recon. ASP is similar. But, if you want something really nifty, look at ASP.NET. It is a most interesting technology. Ok, you probably can't use it for your school project, but as a technology it's great.
It beats ASP hands down.
Posted by Natasha | November 23, 2003 11:04 AM
Posted on November 23, 2003 11:04