Re: [nottingham] Apache/Jakarta J2EE/ PHP

From: Paul Sladen (notlug@paul.sladen.org)
Date: Sun 25 Nov 2001 - 13:59:02 GMT


On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Jason wrote:

> Just as a anyone got any experiences with Implementing Jakarta /J2EE on
> Linux

Not this specifically, but I have Java running on one of my GNU/Apache
boxen--not a great experience it has to be said...

> Also PHP? Which one if any did you prefer??

Ah, well, now yer talking...! PHP **definately** rocks it; this is a bit
like asking which distribution of the GNU operating system you should use,
and getting the answer `Debian'! There is only one sensible answer.

PHP is an excellent package, and makes producing webpages--and particularly,
large number of similar pages, very simple and easy, whilst allowing you to
easily haul-in and process data from an RDBMS, and my favourite here is
MySQL.

Under Debian (which is of course what you're running right?! :):

  # apt-get install apache php4

and have fun! The other incredible advantage with PHP is that the
documentation is supremely good; well organised, and mostly in a central
place that makes it brilliant for quick-reference, and finding examples for
things like, database intergration. Checkout:

  http://www.php.net/

and you're likely to find that your decision becomes very easy after that!

        -Paul

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