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I'm with you Anthony. I work all day with PHP even though I love Ruby (and Rails, and Sinatra...) because practically ALL our client base wants either a static

by trebor 15y ago

I'm with you Anthony. I work all day with PHP even though I love Ruby (and Rails, and Sinatra...) because practically ALL our client base wants either a static site or Wordpress, or another PHP-based CMS. Few of our clients have the budget for a custom web app with its own custom web stack to power it. There's almost nothing faster to get bootstrapped into a functional application or script than PHP. Assuming your server is already configured with PHP you just upload the project. PHP 5.3 and 5.4 give me great hope for the future of the language.

mattbriggs 15y ago
"rails new project-name", and I have a full app. and heroku makes deployment just a push away. Its not like phps ease of use is not a good thing -- it is. but other languages/platforms aren't _that_ much harder
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- trebor 15y ago
  And Heroku sure makes sure that you pay a pretty penny for that convenience. You pay thru the nose for 1 worker and a 20MB database! So you go to a Linode for $20/mo... and immediately need a Sysadmin (or the experience) to handle building the server. A few clicks and you can get a really good shared host with PHP-compatible for $10/mo. It takes more expertise to deal with the other languages and their platforms. Affording a sysadmin to manage the servers can be quite expensive.
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