Re: [PHP-DEV] Function caching... From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 12/09/00

At 22:24 9/12/2000, Joey Smith wrote:
>I want to throw my $0.02 in here.
>
>It has been said over and over by both Zeev and Rasmus that PHP is not
>intended as an application server. It is not what it was designed to be,
>and I do not want to see it go in that direction.
>
>I *would* love to see an application server written that accepts PHP
>syntax, and can load modules written that were written for PHP. But
>that's not what I want PHP itself to become.
>
>IIUC, Such an application server could theoretically be written using
>the Zend engine as its backend. But since the OOP support in Zend has
>some holes (as all of the Core team has admitted repeatedly), perhaps a
>new engine should be written, so that it is compatible with Zend and PHP
>modules.
>
>In either case, I do not think that we need to beat up on PHP because we
>are trying to use it for things it was never intended for. No one
>suggests fixing Excel because I cannot use it as a full-fledged word
>processor (although it is close ;). Instead, they use a word processor
>to do word processing. The same holds true for PHP/Application Server,
>IMHO.

*Exactly*.

We do plan to try and improve the OO system in the Zend engine in version
1.1, but admittedly, there's no time frame for this yet.

Zeev 

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Zeev Suraski <zeev <email protected>>
CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/

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