ColdFusion vs Php
Coldfusion Vs. Php

Well, ive been a cold fusion developer for over 5 years, and have done lots of work with php aswell, and the choice really depends on the applications you are going to create, hands down Cold Fusion will cut development time by over 40%, and with a solid frame work, like FuseBox, you will be amazed how fast development will be. So if you have the budget for it, Cold Fusion all the way

Php on the other hand, free, and available everywhere, ive found even performance to be slightly better than coldfusion also, and I wouldnt like to get involved with a large project in php either, way to much hair, its my choice for quick and dirty apps.

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Omar Samad

-reply by Omar Samad

Potato, potahto
Coldfusion Vs. Php

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Coldfusion is a better choice for working in a corporate environment: every since MX introduced components which allowed you to build objects it has been far easier to control development over large projects. Tag introspection also allows it to be self-documenting which is a huge time saver. Plus many of the really awesome user features (like the dynamic charting, the CFFILE and CFTREE tags) are only really used in business applications.

For bog-standard websites, there's really not much to choose. In fact since Joomla arrived, that is the first choice for ad hoc development.

-reply by BennyM

Coldfusion vs php
Coldfusion Vs. Php

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Hi Omar Samad,
I read your reply regrding the matter. I was just wondering, how much more expensive is Coldfusion compare to php, for a big project?
I would really appreciate your reply.
Thank you very much.

-question by Selina

coldfusion info
Coldfusion Vs. Php

The free developer version of coldfusion has everything the payed version does it just has a different license. You can only use it for development reasons, not for commercial.

Also php does not beat coldfusion in any test what so ever. There isn't a single one. Heres an article on problems with php http://toykeeper.Net/soapbox/php_problems/

Also I really don't want to write pages of text, so read the article. And the commericialised area by zend ruins performance of php. Also if php ever did have anything better then coldfusion don't you think the billion dollar company Adobe would have made coldfusion better? php doesnt have a development team like coldfusion at all, they even struggle to make php6 with unicode support.

Read the article. Also you wont find one commercial company using php, end of story.
If you want to be a developer and make money cold fusion all the way.

Don't say commercial companies do, they don't. I know for a fact they don't. They want a product made by a company who is the ****, adobe is it.
A problem or a bug, they will fix it.
They are the supreme masters. All their programmes crap on competitors.

Be realistic

-reply by heath sims

Feedback about the two
Coldfusion Vs. Php

If you are not a competent coder, ColdFusion is the way to go. The larger the project the more cumbersome ColdFusion handles it. There are instances when cold-fusion can be a quick, clean and easy way to complete an app, but if structured correctly, php preforms better and in my experiences, can become modular much quicker.

I have worked with my own MVC framework I wrote for php, and have been dealing a lot lately with model-glue + coldspring + reactor, and I have to say that, in terms of large scale repetitive development, coldfusion is rediculous. The rapid part of development goes only so far, before it starts to become a relationship nightmare.

If you have been programming long, C++ or other similar OOP languages, and can form structured code, you will be able to develop apps quickly in any language, in the end there is no best or worst really, I work A LOT in both, and consider myself an expert php developer, but either way, both languages can handle development just as easy, it just depends on the developer and their syntax preference.

-reply by Anthony

An the survey says... *eh uhrrrr*
Coldfusion Vs. Php

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The comments by Heath Sims are what you call a 'biased response'. I'm thinkin' that's a typical "my programming language is better than yours" reply.

Forgetting the fact that, that article has an impressive amount of 'shortcomings' in itself and is outdated, every programming language on earth has its shortcomings (I guess you forgot to add a link to ColdFusion's?).

Performance wise, unless somebody would like to go away and run benchmark tests on both numbering in the thousands to get a reliable result which all have an impressive amount of variables that have to be accounted for, none of us are in a position to question "Which has the better performance?".

"Also if PHP ever did have anything better then coldfusion don't you think the billion dollar company Adobe would have made coldfusion better"

The fact that Adobe has money has absolutely no bearing at all on which is the better programming language. Some of the best projects in the world have been free and open source.

"Also you wont find one commercial company using php, end of story.
If you want to be a developer and make money cold fusion all the way. Don't say commercial companies do, they don't. I know for a fact they don't. They want a product made by a company who is the ****, adobe is it."

Wow that's a strong statement, you also couldn't be more wrong. In fact, it's the absolute opposite. The company I work for (the market leader in what it does) runs the entire business off complex Adobe Flex applications with a PHP and MSSQL backend (we even switched to PHP from ColdFusion). PHP freelancers also receive more work than ColdFusion developers (search any major freelancer site). There are more PHP jobs available than ColdFusion http://www.Itjobswatch.Co.Uk is a good example (for the UK).

So lets "Be realistic".

Dis

To be honestly, I never really tried coldfusion
but I would go for PHP

More people use PHP

Almost every free hosts support PHP

not many hosts support coldfusion, thats why I wasnt able to learn more about coldfusion

ALLOT of PHP Tutorials online

Its free afcourse

If you know C++/ C# it will be easy to learn

Its easier, I think

You can compile PHP codes to executable(bambalam, php2exe etc...)

Its very fast, and great for making web applications

And lots more!
Its just better, dont u think ?

- optiplex

This post has been edited by optiplex: Jun 27 2008, 04:33 PM

I would choose php,
right know thinking at cold fusin gives me headaches...but I believe with strong knowledge in cf you're faster than with php..
but for now I'm still learning php so no bother to use cf..