Need some convincing
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:49 pm
I have been been a developer for 10 years and over the last 3 years moved into web development. I have recently made the transision to .NET but have been mainly programming in ASP with COM dll's written in visual basic.
I have set my own company and some of the work I am getting is from small start up companies who do not have their own webservers but use hosting companies such as UKDomains. These hosting companies do not seem to offer support for .NET, COM, classic asp and those that do charge a large amount of money.
I am therefore looking into PHP. I have never used PHP and in the world of business application development I have not heard of PHP been used. I have only seen PHP used for forums, and therefore I am a bit reluctent to spend the time learning it.
So my questions is can PHP do all the things that I can do in ASP.NET or classic ASP/VB. For example, I have written a document management system in ASP and COM. Its supports uploading/downloading of files, dynamic creation of word documnts and merging of word documents. Converting word documents to PDF, full text search etc. The front end is built around AJAX so there is not the usually reloading of frames. I could go on but hopefully this example gives you an idea of the kind of thing I develop. Anyway, I have a couple of companies interested in this product but use a hosting company like I mentioned above. So is this the kind of thing that I could easily port over to PHP?
Thanks for any advice or help you can give me.
I have set my own company and some of the work I am getting is from small start up companies who do not have their own webservers but use hosting companies such as UKDomains. These hosting companies do not seem to offer support for .NET, COM, classic asp and those that do charge a large amount of money.
I am therefore looking into PHP. I have never used PHP and in the world of business application development I have not heard of PHP been used. I have only seen PHP used for forums, and therefore I am a bit reluctent to spend the time learning it.
So my questions is can PHP do all the things that I can do in ASP.NET or classic ASP/VB. For example, I have written a document management system in ASP and COM. Its supports uploading/downloading of files, dynamic creation of word documnts and merging of word documents. Converting word documents to PDF, full text search etc. The front end is built around AJAX so there is not the usually reloading of frames. I could go on but hopefully this example gives you an idea of the kind of thing I develop. Anyway, I have a couple of companies interested in this product but use a hosting company like I mentioned above. So is this the kind of thing that I could easily port over to PHP?
Thanks for any advice or help you can give me.