Re: [PHP-EVANGELISM] PHP evangelism tools : where we are

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:20:37AM +0300, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I just wanted to say that I think this is a great and extremely important 
> initiative.
> As .NET and Java are becoming more and more hyped with web services 
> solutions we definitely need to do this kind of stuff.
This weekend/next week i'm writing a proof-of-concept webservice in PHP
using the pear soap classes. Clients for it i will write in PHP, asp and
.net (to show also 'foreign' languages can use these webservices)

> I think it's important to make some of the major topics such as how PHP 
> supports web services, internationalization, portability, ease of use, etc. 
> major sections on the site.
> There are some areas you might find are hard to defend PHP. For example, I 
> think the XML technologies support is relatively weaker today. 
I must say the new domxml (libxml2) support is php is much better than the
expat version.. Also the functionnaming looks more to SAX and the MSXML
parser. I'm sorry to say, but the MS XML parser really kick azz. Sorry
again..

> So it's important to:
> a) List the available solutions and possibly rank them so people know what 
> to test when they are testing the PHP technology.
> b) Try and convince PHP developers to work on improving what needs to be 
> improved.
+1

Maybe we can all send it a list with 5 positive and 5 negative point/areas
of PHP. After we have (i think) a solid list of positive and negative thing
about PHP. The positive points should we advocated and bundeld with some
related articles and code sniplets to point out how to use them.


> 
> Good luck to the project!
Credits so far goto James Cox  ;-)

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