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  • 12.05.2012 1:56 AM PDT

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please elaborate on what "phpbb" exactly is, and I'll get back to you on your question.

  • 12.05.2012 1:58 AM PDT


Posted by: GrandmasterNinja
please elaborate on what "phpbb" exactly is, and I'll get back to you on your question.
It's a popular forum software. A lot of big community sites utilize it for their forums.

[Edited on 12.05.2012 2:00 AM PST]

  • 12.05.2012 2:00 AM PDT

.NET > PHP.

If you have a choice for a .NET based codebase, choose it instead.

  • 12.05.2012 2:04 AM PDT


Posted by: dazarobbo
.NET > PHP.

If you have a choice for a .NET based codebase, choose it instead.
Ha, oh goodness, the debate with no ends; php or .NET.

Lol.

  • 12.05.2012 2:10 AM PDT


Posted by: Carnage_A51

Posted by: dazarobbo
.NET > PHP.

If you have a choice for a .NET based codebase, choose it instead.
Ha, oh goodness, the debate with no ends; php or .NET.

Lol.
He's right. The .NET framework is extensive.

  • 12.05.2012 2:11 AM PDT


Posted by: BiII Gates

Posted by: Carnage_A51

Posted by: dazarobbo
.NET > PHP.

If you have a choice for a .NET based codebase, choose it instead.
Ha, oh goodness, the debate with no ends; php or .NET.

Lol.
He's right. The .NET framework is extensive.
But limited, where as php is not. The downside is it's more work to use, though.

[Edited on 12.05.2012 2:18 AM PST]

  • 12.05.2012 2:17 AM PDT

Limited in what way(s)? Anything you can do in PHP, you can do in .NET by using Phalanger.

  • 12.05.2012 2:21 AM PDT


Posted by: BiII Gates
Limited in what way(s)? Anything you can do in PHP, you can do in .NET by using Phalanger.
Database flexibility, among other things. Sure, you CAN do just about everything with .NET by finding work around/alternate way of doing something, but, still... I mean, I'm not highly for one or the other, I'm just making statements.

  • 12.05.2012 2:26 AM PDT

Posted by: Carnage_A51
But limited, where as php is not. The downside is it's more work to use, though.
How?

PHP is very limited.

- Signed 32 bit integers being the maximum numeric type on 32 bit machines
- OOP implementation is very basic (ie. no private const)
- No overloading/polymorphism... at all!
- Weakly typed (ie. '0', 0 evaluates to false)
- etc...

However, I will say that it is very good for quickly serialising objects (ie. you can quickly whip up a stdClass with some properties and encode it with json_encode).

  • 12.05.2012 2:31 AM PDT
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Dazarobbo, I believe he was referring to the forum software. Not the programming language itself.

But I do agree, PHP sucks.

  • 12.05.2012 2:33 AM PDT

Posted by: Carnage_A51

Posted by: BiII Gates
Limited in what way(s)? Anything you can do in PHP, you can do in .NET by using Phalanger.
Database flexibility, among other things. Sure, you CAN do just about everything with .NET by finding work around/alternate way of doing something, but, still... I mean, I'm not highly for one or the other, I'm just making statements.
I should have been more detailed in my last post. Phalanger compiles existing PHP scripts into CIL assembly (the backbone of the .NET framework). This means you can still write your applications in PHP, but the extensibility of .NET is there if you want to use it (and there's really no reason not to).

  • 12.05.2012 2:35 AM PDT

Posted by: ThirstyAvenge
Dazarobbo, I believe he was referring to the forum software. Not the programming language itself.

But I do agree, PHP sucks.
I'm aware. However, because of the limitations of PHP, I suggested using forum software based on .NET instead.

The Web Platform Installer also makes it really easy to install forums, CMS, servers, databases, etc... (including PHP).

  • 12.05.2012 2:41 AM PDT


Posted by: dazarobbo
Posted by: ThirstyAvenge
Dazarobbo, I believe he was referring to the forum software. Not the programming language itself.

But I do agree, PHP sucks.
I'm aware. However, because of the limitations of PHP, I suggested using forum software based on .NET instead.

The Web Platform Installer also makes it really easy to install forums, CMS, servers, databases, etc... (including PHP).
And look, I like both languages; I'm sure .Net is better in some ways for some reasons, and php is better in some ways for other reasons - It really depends on what you're doing, what you work best with, and in some cases which will be the quicker solution if the project will end up %100 the same(as far as functionality and performance goes) regardless of the language chosen.

Now, as far as choosing a .NET forum software, the ones available aren't as good as phpbb. I mean, sure, if you want to spend way longer you could get a .NET based forum software and code the things you would like and get things looking how you want; but, with phpbb, there's already so much to work with.

But hey, I may just have not seen a better .Net one yet, and there may be one out there. But, I know phpbb is good, reliable, and you can do absolutely anything you want with it fairly easy.

  • 12.05.2012 2:56 AM PDT

.NET isn't a language, though, it's a framework. You write your application in Java/C#/C++/Perl/Ruby/Python/PHP/whatever and it's compiled into a common language and executed. Because of this, you can write part of an app in C#, part in Perl, part in PHP, and it will all run and work together as if you wrote it in one single language. For that reason, you'll probably have an easier time finding the things you need when you're building your site (more languages means more developers, which means more classes and a larger API).

  • 12.05.2012 3:10 AM PDT

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I wish I knew what was going on in this thread o.o

  • 12.05.2012 3:15 AM PDT


Posted by: BiII Gates
.NET isn't a language, though, it's a framework. You write your application in Java/C#/C++/Perl/Ruby/Python/PHP/whatever and it's compiled into a common language and executed. Because of this, you can write part of an app in C#, part in Perl, part in PHP, and it will all run and work together as if you wrote it in one single language. For that reason, you'll probably have an easier time finding the things you need when you're building your site (more languages means more developers, which means more classes and a larger API).
Right, .NET is just a framework, did I say it was a language somewhere?

Edit: Shiznit, I guess I did, was typing too fast I guess.

[Edited on 12.05.2012 3:24 AM PST]

  • 12.05.2012 3:20 AM PDT


Posted by: Carnage_A51
Edit: Shiznit, I guess I did, was typing too fast I guess.
Haha, no worries. Just dropping some knowledge bombs.

  • 12.05.2012 3:25 AM PDT