[Lazarus] fpweb for delphi?

[Myles Wakeham]

Marco wrote:

 >That leaves PHP. Which is good for small stuff, but I wouldn't like having
it write to mission critical databases. PHP is only used for small potatoe
and frontends. (leaving a service to do the real work).


Huh?  Ever heard of Facebook?  Or SugarCRM?  They are PHP apps.  And PHP 
is not a front-end solution.  It runs on the server, not the client.  I 
think you are confusing it with Javascript/HTML/AJAX, etc. all of which 
work with any back-end code (PHP, Perl, ASP, or FPC CGIs).

I have PHP applications in production with large user communities (ie. > 
1,000) and they perform exceptionally well.  I do also have FPC CGI's 
running for doing intensive file handling alongside of them and yes, it 
does outperform for those applications.  But by the time I lose all my 
PHP extensions, frameworks, Smarty, etc. it would take me 3-4x the 
development effort to construct a web solution in FPC than in PHP.

There's a place for both technologies and they can work exceptionally 
well together, but please don't underestimate what PHP can (and has 
done) in web development circles.

Myles
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