Re: PHP Unit tests

Hey

1. Strong types is not nessary in a scripting language, if it causes
headaches it's due to poor documentation which is far worse than just the
lack of strong types.

The reason things are developed in scripting languages is to avoid *too*
much typing overheat. I can't say that strong typing ever would have solved
an issue in php, that couldn't been solved by the nessary documentation.

2. There is alot of unit tests frameworks for php, have you not looked in
/test/ that is shipped with Zend Framework ? http://www.phpunit.de/ is one
of the more populare , and one of the lead developers being Sebastian
Bergmann from eZ Components.

3. That will be nailed in PHP6, but my experience is that Ruby and Java
ain't much better, and Ruby most likely would relay on the same libs as php
does (iconv).

4. http://pecl.php.net/APC , www.php.net/APC , op-code cache for php5 :-)
Works like a charm.

And regarding Java... your boss should look at history, and perhaps explain
him how horrible struts is :-)

2007/6/22, Bojan Tesanovic <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am Web developer and front-end team lead of classifieds search engine
> site.
> We are using php 5.2.0 and Zend Framework to power our web site.
> But lately my manager wants to jump to another platform RnR or Java
> which I dislike though he is right in some points.
>
> 1. Lack of strong types which can cause lot of headaches
> 2. Missing of PHP Unit framework that is supported by Zend or PHP
> community
> 3. Robust UTF-8 and I18N support which will I hope be nailed in PHP6
> 4. Maybe a way to compress source or make opcode of php files in one file
> and deploy it to web server
>     this is very helpful in production environments and large systems
>
> So it would be of great importance for PHP to tackle #1 and #2 and to dive
> more deeply in
> Enterprise waters.
>
>
> best
> Bojan Tesanovic
> http://www.classicio.com/
>



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