From: Tony Grant <tony@tgds.net>
To: Matthew Nuzum <cobalt@bearfruit.org>
Cc: 'PostgreSQL-general' <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] interesting PHP/MySQL thread
Date: 24 Jun 2003 07:54:45 +0200
Message-ID: <1056434085.1631.11.camel@vaio> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004b01c339fc$70c534e0$a322fea9@mattspc>
References: <004b01c339fc$70c534e0$a322fea9@mattspc>
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 04:58, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> I too started doing php stuff because of the need to do a web front end for
> a database. Prior to that I had no database experience at all and the
> wealth of PHP/MySQL tutorials made it easy for me to learn both.
Then there are those of us who don't use PHP and don't think that it is
the right choice for enterprise class database front ends...
The force of PostgreSQL is that you have the right to choose the front
end for webapps. I do not think that it is a good idea to tie just one
to the database. PHP does not have a very good image when it comes to
stability or security for example.
It may be better marketing to say "you can use PostgreSQL with Zope,
Tcl/tk, Python, JSP or even PHP". Rather than "you _HAVE_ to use PHP as
a front end if you want to run MySQL because, if you want to use
anything else, tough..."
Cheers
Tony Grant
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