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0 pointsrmason15y ago0 comments

A better PHP than PHP: You mean like Railo?

http://www.getrailo.com/com/index.cfm/whyrailo/developers/

(Scroll to bottom where they address why for PHP devs)

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PaulHoule15y ago· 2 in thread

that article is strikingly inarticulate. if you've got to tell me to scroll to the bottom, then it's a complete failure at selling railo, whatever it is

rmasonOP15y ago

I am getting a 404 with the link right now. Railo is a JBOSS project that is an open source version of CFML. Here's what they say about Railo in comparison to PHP:

• Simplicity

More powerful tags for simple file, email, database and other common operations.

• Best Practices Support

If you want to build OO apps using TDD, you can do so. If not, you can still hack out working scripts in minutes.

• Frameworks

A wide range of frameworks designed to make it quick and easy to build well designed web applications.

• OSS Projects

RIAForge has hundred of pre-built projects so you can quickly deliver anything from a blog to a content management system.

• Robust deployment

Railo CFML is easy to manage and deploy, but it's sitting on top of the Java Virtual Machine so it can be deployed to any servlet container or J2EE application server and can take advantage of all of the tooling available for deploying and maintaining Java applications (JMeter, Maven, etc.).

Is this more clear?

PaulHoule15y ago

you've got to be kidding; PHP is a better Cold Fusion than Cold Fusion ever was

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