Re: Why use PHP? What are the disadvantages?

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So we take it that you're abandoning CL and SQL Aaron <grin>

OK - I'll play devil's advocate here.

We all use multiple languages on the IBM i all day every day. You have  
to learn both Javascript and HTML in order to be able to produce web  
applications. To use RPG for the web you also have to learn one set of  
APIs or another. Given that whatever choice you make, you will not  
find an awful lot of help out on the web, are you not as well or  
better off choosing PHP where at least there's a wide range of help  
and tutorials and ... available?

Open Access and the resulting RPG options may change the game - but  
right now I'll use my RPG code on the back end and use PHP to drive  
the UI.


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com



On Apr 19, 2010, at 12:18 PM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Here is where I believe we disagree.  I think that a two language  
> scenario
> introduces enough bad things that it would almost be better to go  
> with all
> one language or the other.