[Phpwm] PHP Vs .net

[Keith Pope]

If your guys know .net I would stick with that! The only thing I would say is make sure you use a good .net language i.e C# also the new MVC features in 3.5 are really good. 

On a language level PHP and C# are very similar, I haven't really come across any situations where PHP couldn't do something that C# could :) Apart from extension methods which are cool when used in pipelines :).

.net sadly has better tools for testing (xUnit style), I have many a time looked at the tools available in .net and wished I could use them in PHP.
 

----- Original Message -----
From: Justin Joyce <Justin.Joyce at cit.coop>
Sent: Tue, 12/2/2008 2:59pm
To: Phpwm at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Phpwm] PHP Vs .net





Hi All,


 


Long time lurker although have made one or
two posts before…


 


I have a quick question (quick in that the
question is short.. I don’t imagine the answers will be!) on the subject
of PHP vs .Net as a development platform for large ecommerce sites… 


 


Our current ecommerce site is built on a MS
SQL database and has recently been re-written in .net (previously asp). The
site uses a number of third party API’s who recommend the MS platform as
their preferred solution although in most cases we are aware of other sites
using the same API’s successfully in a PHP / MYSQL environment. What I am
looking for are your views on moving the site away from the current MS platform
to an open source solution utilising PHP and other open source tools /
databases… we have talked about it with the .net developers and they are
(naturally) bleating about lack of support and all the usual BS…  therefore
I guess my question is… Should PHP / MYSQL be seriously considered for a
reasonably busy ecommerce site that needs 24 hour uptime, 99% reliability, PCI
DSS compliant security etc etc. 


 


Thanks in advance for your time in reading
this / answering.


 


Cheers


 


Justin




 


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