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...or big thing running yesterday, right? Take Facebook for an example. To me, Facebook seems like a pretty complicated piece of software. The concept isn't ve
by arnorhs 16y ago
...or big thing running yesterday, right? Take Facebook for an example.
To me, Facebook seems like a pretty complicated piece of software. The concept isn't very complicated but there are so many features all over the place.
- shod 16y agoHe didn't say you _can't_ use PHP for such things, he said PHP is "great" for getting smaller sites built quickly. It's possible to build very large apps with PHP alone, if you like, but there are other solutions I think are preferable. Most of them weren't even available when Facebook was born. For example, I would rather build a Facebook-sized app in Rails than a PHP framework, especially with Rails 3's new features. There are some very capable PHP frameworks out there, but you'll still end up writing much larger models and a lot more code than if you were using Rails.
- wvenable 16y agoRails would get you started on Facebook app quicker, but then you'd be forever fighting the framework to do things outside of it's core abilities. For something as large as Facebook, that will be all the time.
- sanderjd 16y agoSeems to me as if Facebook used PHP for the small thing running yesterday aspect - since they've gotten big they've had to switch to different tools.