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Adobe ColdFusion vs PHP: What are the differences?

  1. Key Difference 1: Syntax and Language Features: Adobe ColdFusion uses a tag-based syntax similar to HTML, which allows developers to easily integrate with existing HTML code. PHP, on the other hand, uses a syntax that is more similar to traditional programming languages like C and Perl. This difference in syntax and language features makes ColdFusion more accessible for web designers who are familiar with HTML, while PHP is often preferred by developers with a programming background.

  2. Key Difference 2: Platform Compatibility: Adobe ColdFusion runs on Java, which means it can be deployed on any platform that has Java support. On the other hand, PHP is a server-side scripting language that is specifically designed for web development, and it can be easily integrated with popular web servers like Apache and IIS. This difference in platform compatibility allows ColdFusion to be used in a wider range of scenarios, while PHP is often the preferred choice for web-based applications.

  3. Key Difference 3: Community and Support: PHP has a larger and more active community compared to Adobe ColdFusion. The PHP community provides extensive documentation, tutorials, and forums, making it easier for developers to find help and resources when they encounter issues or need to learn new concepts. ColdFusion, although it has a dedicated user base, lacks the same level of community support and resources as PHP.

  4. Key Difference 4: Performance and Scalability: PHP has proven to be more performant and scalable than Adobe ColdFusion in many scenarios. PHP's lightweight nature and efficient memory utilization enable it to handle high traffic websites with ease. ColdFusion, on the other hand, can experience performance issues with large-scale applications due to its heavier resource requirements and less efficient memory management.

  5. Key Difference 5: Learning Curve and Developer Skills: PHP has a relatively low learning curve compared to Adobe ColdFusion. Many developers are already familiar with PHP or come from a background in programming languages using similar syntax, which allows them to quickly adopt and start working with PHP. ColdFusion, on the other hand, requires developers to learn a specific tag-based syntax and its unique features, which can take more time and effort to master.

  6. Key Difference 6: Cost: Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial product, and the licensing costs associated with it can be a significant factor for organizations considering its adoption. PHP, on the other hand, is an open-source language, and there are no licensing fees involved. This cost advantage makes PHP a preferred choice for small businesses and startups with limited budgets.

In Summary, Adobe ColdFusion and PHP differ in their syntax and language features, platform compatibility, community support, performance and scalability, learning curve and developer skills, as well as cost. While ColdFusion is more accessible for web designers and offers wider platform compatibility, PHP has a larger community and better performance.

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Hi, I have a project on my mind, and I need some help. First of all, I know it is all about personal preference, but I am a beginner in the back-end part. So, I am trying to figure out which language is better, for example, for user authentication and interaction between the users. Also, I don't know which framework is better for this work. My first thought was to use PHP, but after some research on the internet, I'm leaning towards Laravel. I will be grateful if you have some advice for me.

#newbie

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First thoughts: * As a beginner you need to understand concepts first, all languages out there are great, each has it's own philosophy, each is better suited for a specific situation. Learn concepts first, do something, then you will understand the differences between them and why one should be chose over another for a task * As a project manager you want your project to come to an end. You will get lost in all the different solutions out there (and it's good), but don't get lost too far. Very often I see people getting lost in those debates and never achieving things, like someone writing a book that would still be choosing the font 6 months after (we've all done that it's ok, but we have to realise it)

Chances are your project can be equally good on any different stacks. I heard an interview of someone from Uber who said something like they started with python, went to node, went back to python and went to go, and with micro-services now they can have all of them all-together.

Last remark: from what I know Laravel is a framework for PHP, so it IS PHP. Just like Symphony for PHP, Express for Node.js, Koa for Node.js, Flask for Python ...

Now to answer your question :

  • PHP has a big community, it is great and easy to start with, and you will definitely will learn real object oriented structure
  • Node.js has a big community too, don't worry finding help will be as easy. It is less easy to start with but in my point of view it is a lot easier to keep on going with it on a long run. Why ? Because it's very easy to run a new project, and it executes javascript. How is it good ? Because chances are that your front will also be using javascript (React.js / View.js are crazy good). Thanks to that you will be able to master the language better because you will use it all day (and at first mastering one language is more valuable than barely knowing two) and you won't have to switch languages in your head when you code. And communication between front and back will be in json ... Which is crazy close to javascript.

Alexander is right, if you go with PHP take your time first to do things by yourself like building your own MVC, the benefit is huge and the risk is to never really be able to understand what's happening on a deeper level. (at some point you can switch to a framework though). He's also right on choosing a strongly typed language, problem is javascript is not. This is why, if you choose node, when you start being confident, add typesccript.

Hope it helps, good luck

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Octavian Irimia
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Short answer, if it's a web project (and I guess it is) go with PHP and you can integrate NodeJs services later.

@adzaria (Ezra Fayet) gave a great answer and I'd like to emphasize the first part: As a beginner you need to understand concepts first. For me that means to understand the web, how servers and requests work, APIs and few others.

Now, I'd like to add few things so, this is the long answer:

Why PHP?

  • Everyone knows about the community - PHP is way older so you will find lots of resources and I am not only talking about learning - also lots of helpful tools and packages
  • PHP is great for OOP - not perfect, but with PHP7 got great - and if you are a beginner you want to know good OOP for your future. Let's say JavaScript's OOP is a bit strange; I will not get into details but, let's say "it's not by the book". You can still learn JavaScript for your front-end

Why not Python? Python got popular because of AI - don't use PHP for AI and don't use Python for web applications. I can elaborate a lot here but I guess you get the point.

Why not NodeJs?

  • NodeJs got popular because of sockets - and it works great, but as a service
  • Try to find a good and affordable hosting for NodeJs. How about for Python?
  • I would not ignore the security issues that it had and could appear. PHP is older and, therefore, wiser :)

Now, about a framework... is this a learning project or something that you need to do fast? My advice is to start a small project and not use any framework. However, you can use packages and inspire from a framework's architecture - Laravel is a good role model.

Why not start a big project? You will get distracted, get into details and product design stuff and get scared or border and abandon it. For your project you need an MVP - list of minimum required features that you put on paper - that you will complete. After that you can improve.

Good luck!

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somes kumar k
Member Technical Staff at Manage Engine, division of Zoho Corp · | 3 upvotes · 359.6K views
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you can choose Node.js Here are my points

Node.js is build over chrome’s v8 and its works on non blocking io. Node.js have huge community and great packages (npm) to help you out in most cases and makes development faster Node.js has been adopted by many multi dollar company Hope this helps😊

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I have used Laravel, but with Django you can develop faster, as authentication and admin panel are configured out of the box. It users SQLite by default and you won't have to worry about the database in the begginning

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You cannot choose between Python | PHP | NodeJS Since they are entirely for Different purpose.

In Bird view

Python - Large Scale Projects and if you want a job in big IT company.

Node.JS - Huge computing projects and if you want job in Silicon valley startup.

PHP - Cost Effective and If you want start a business in near future.

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Tarun Batra
Senior Software Developer at Okta · | 2 upvotes · 348K views
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Python, PHP and Node.js all are capable of being used to create good complex software. There are many examples of similar applications built on all of them. If I have to pick one, I would say consider Python and Django. It is fairly easy to develop web applications on top of this stack. Scaling and maintaining the application should also not be a problem given a lot of resources are available online.

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Alexander Santos
Fullstack Developer at 3CON · | 2 upvotes · 355.4K views
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The reason why i chose PHP is the amount of content you can find on the internet easily. As you quoted being a beginner, i think a more mature language would be better. And that's also another reason for following with PHP.

Python is simple and "mature", but it can be a bit hard to understand if you are a beginner. Python relies on heavy abstraction, and that's the reason behind it's simplicity. Python is an "easy to play, hard to master" language, i never recommend it to beginners. Also, one [maybe personal] reason why i don't like to use Python as back-end is: Python is very data-focused. So if your app has focus on business logic, Python wouldn't fit very well. And with that becomes an advantage, if your app has statistical focus, being data-focused or something like that, Python has huge advantage among all other languages due to many great tools the community has built.

About Node, it's like PHP, but less mature. It's as easy as PHP to find tools that can help you, for example, to abstract the database-connection's logic. But to find architectural-focused content, more advanced concepts, it's a lot harder. While that, Laravel's community, for example, has a lot of materials that involves those concepts.

Still, if you are really a beginner, i don't recommend using Laravel with PHP. Do things on plain PHP first, understand the reason behind using frameworks and Laravel's motivation.

Also, consider a strong-typed language first, those are considered more didatic, but less flexible.

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Hi everyone, I have just started to study web development, so I'm very new in this field. I would like to ask you which tools are most updated and good to use for getting a job in medium-big company. Front-end is basically not changing by time so much (as I understood by researching some info), so my question is about back-end tools. Which backend tools are most updated and requested by medium-big companies (I am searching for immediate job possibly)?

Thank you in advance Davit

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Pierrick Martos
Engineering Manager at Akeneo · | 20 upvotes · 352.3K views
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Go with Python definetly. It's used everywhere by web developers for backend developments : API, website backend, workers... but also by data scientists (lot lot of resources, models and libraries in Python it's language #1). For the web parts, best web framework are in Python : https://stackshare.io/microframeworks (Flask #2 and Django #3). Java is good but trend is not great in terms of popularity amongs developers and tech leaders.

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Vijayakumar Rajagopal
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As per my experience java is most wanted for web development as of now. micro service is evolving . with frameworks like spring boot supports rapid development. Spring boot + Docker + kubernetes great combination.

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sharik zama
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I would recommend learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (most important). JavaScript forms the backbone of web development. And, there are many popular and widely used frameworks like Angular and React that heavily rely on the knowledge of JavaScript. The number of job opportunities are much more when it comes to javascript.

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Chathuranga Bandara
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I would recommend Python as the programming language and as you are a new developer, Flask to start with. It gives you a solid understanding on the web patterns such as REST and will get you up and running in no time. However, I suggest you to read and study on front-end technologies like (React or Vue) and databases (SQL and NoSQL) and probably some NodeJS as well. First grasp the concepts (which Python is ideal for) then it does not really matter the language as such.

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Kyle Harrison
Web Application Developer at Fortinet · | 17 upvotes · 373.9K views

Node continues to be dominant force in the world of web apps, with it's signature async first non-blocking IO, and frankly mind bending speeds. PHP and Python are formable tools, I chose Node for the simplicity of Express as a good and performant server side API gateway platform, that works well with Angular.

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Octavian Irimia

Both PHP and Python are free but when it comes to web development PHP wins for sure. There is no doubt that Python is a powerful language but it is not optimal for web. PHP has issues... of course; but so does any other language.

Another reason I chose PHP is for community - it has one of the most resourceful communities from the internet and for a good reason: it evolved with the language itself.

The fact that OOP evolved so much in PHP makes me keep it for good :)

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Roman Glushko
Machine Learning, Software Engineering and Life · | 3 upvotes · 369.4K views

I chose Golang as a language to write Tango because it's super easy to get started with. I also considered Rust, but learning curve of it is much higher than in Golang. I felt like I would need to spend an endless amount of time to even get the hello world app working in Rust. While easy to learn, Golang still shows good performance, multithreading out of the box and fun to implement.

I also could choose PHP and create a phar-based tool, but I was not sure that it would be a good choice as I want to scale to be able to process Gbs of access log data

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Mohamed Hassan
Software Engineer at YottaHQ Inc. · | 4 upvotes · 191.3K views

PHP is easy to learn and you can get up and running in no time, available on almost all hosting providers and you can find developers easily. It has some great frameworks for building your backend like Symfony and Laravel. However, it can be challenging when running an enterprise and needs some adjustments, very recommended for starting a new project or startup.

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Subhan Nooriansyah
Full Stack Mobile Developer at AISITS · | 1 upvote · 187K views

Websocket is trending this year, but there is another technology similar with Websocket (WS) is Server Sent Event (SSE). Those method have used similar Content-type, SSE is used to text/event-stream and WS is used to binary or text/octet-stream.

The different both of those method is sent. WS is an undirectional sending data both of client and server and SSE is whatever data on server will be push to client.

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      Large community
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      Open source
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      Easy deployment
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      Great frameworks
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      The best glue on the web
    • 235
      Continual improvements
    • 185
      Good old web
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      Web foundation
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      Community packages
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      Tool support
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      Used by wordpress
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      Excellent documentation
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      Used by Facebook
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      Because of Symfony
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      Dynamic Language
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      Easy to learn
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      Cheap hosting
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      Very powerful web language
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      Awesome Language and easy to implement
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      Fast development
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      Because of Laravel
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      Composer
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      Flexibility, syntax, extensibility
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      Easiest deployment
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      Readable Code
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      Fast
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      Short development lead times
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      Most of the web uses it
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      Worst popularity quality ratio
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      Fastestest Time to Version 1.0 Deployments
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      Simple, flexible yet Scalable
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      Faster then ever
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      Open source and large community
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      Cheap to own
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      Has the best ecommerce(Magento,Prestashop,Opencart,etc)
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      Is like one zip of air
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      Open source and great framework
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      Large community, easy setup, easy deployment, framework
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      Easy to use and learn
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      Easy to learn, a big community, lot of frameworks
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      Great developer experience
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      I have no choice :(
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      Hard not to use
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      Walk away
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      Interpreted at the run time
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      FFI
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      Safe the planet
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      Used by STOMT
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      Fault tolerance
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      Great flexibility. From fast prototyping to large apps
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      Simplesaml
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      Bando
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      Secure
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      It can get you a lamborghini
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      Cost
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      So easy to learn, good practices are hard to find
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      Inconsistent API
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      Fragmented community
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      Not secure
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      No routing system
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    What is Adobe ColdFusion?

    Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web application development platform created by J. J. Allaire in 1995.[1] (The programming language used with that platform is also commonly called ColdFusion, though is more accurately known as CFML.) ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database. By version 2 (1996), it became a full platform that included an IDE in addition to a full scripting language.

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