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Author OpenCms (JSP) versus Mambo (PHP)
Mark ??;-\)

2005-11-28, 9:58 pm

I'm not 100% sure that this is the right newsgroup for this, so if I'm wrong
point me in the right direction.

I am interested in creating a user writable web site. Not the entire site
will need to be writable by selected users, but several pages will need to
be modifiable. So far I have a few options: (1) I can write something
myself in PHP that meets most of the needs. (2) I can use something like
Mambo as the CMS, but then creating new modules for my needs seems like a
real pain. (3) I can use something like OpenCms, which seems to meet most
of my needs and seems like it would be easier to configure than Mambo.

Does anyone have experience in the main differences and reasons for and
against using JSP versus using PHP. Is one faster, safer, more broadly
supported? If you have experience with both PHP and JSP, which do you think
is easier to learn? Are there any support issues (I.E. Internet Explorer no
longer supporting Java) that would make one favorable over the other?

Thanks,

-Mark


samer71

2005-11-30, 2:30 am

Hi,

One main point to consider is the fact that you would need a Servlet/JSP container to be able to run JSPs. It has nothing to do with IE support since JSPs get translated into HTML!

I perfer JSP but most web hosting providers do not have a JSP container (like Tomcat) but they do have PHP installed almost as a standard feature.

Hope this helped!

Samer
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