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> There was never an excuse to use it, there were always other options, even many years ago. What was the alternative to using php from 1996 to 2000 if you wer
by hackthemack 8y ago
> There was never an excuse to use it, there were always other options, even many years ago.
What was the alternative to using php from 1996 to 2000 if you were running a small mom and pop isp and your customer base was requesting shopping carts, photo galleries, and blog like web capabilities?
In that era, the servers were pentiums of 75MHz.
- Twirrim 8y agoAgreed. Back then you primarily went one of two ways, Perl & PHP. PHP was by far the lowest barrier to development. Easy to enable PHP support in webservers, easy to incrementally increase usage in your platform alongside any static HTML. PHP + mod_php moved away from needing to know what was happening on the server side. Perl and the other cgi-bin integrations could be complicated, involved, requiring more specific configuration on the server side. Sure, it's not _that_ hard to do, but it does present a barrier to entry that PHP / mod_php handily solved.
- pjmlp 8y agoBy 1999, Zope, C CGIs, TCL (AOLServer), ColdFusion, Delphi HTTP Server, ASP, IIS ISAPI,... More than two possible ways.
- Twirrim 8y agoI'm sorry, I don't see anywhere where I said there were only two ways.
- pjmlp 8y agoThat is what I take from "Back then you primarily went one of two ways, Perl & PHP.". As if everything else wasn't worth mentioning. Back on my little bubble, the options listed by me were much more relevant.
- lkrubner 8y agoWhen I wrote "PHP is obsolete" I emphasized that it was my favorite language back in 2000. It was a decent answer to the problems of the 1990s, but it has no place in modern life. The response on Hacker News was split: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9598309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9598309