[ale] [EXTERNAL] Is PHP the easiest way to make a web application?

[Allen Beddingfield]

I'm going to answer this one from the point of view of the Linux administrator managing the server, not the web developer (because I'm not one). 
I fully expect a lot of people to disagree.
PHP is the easiest thing to host (aside from plain HTML).  Just create an Apache virtual host, load the PHP module for Apache and maybe rewrite, and give sftp access to the data directory.  Done.
No other packages to pull in, no giving the web developer shell access, not proxy config to get SSL working, etc....  and most importantly, no "this is such a complicated mess, that I will let the developer do it in a container".
Allen B.

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
Office 205-348-2251
allen at ua.edu

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ale] Is PHP the easiest way to make a web application?

Hi all,

I'm considering making an online web application that has rules, does
some computing, rolls dice, maybe shuffles cards, and takes user input
as clicks and maybe as text fields.

I tried Node.JS a long time ago, and nope!

I'm not a RAILS fan either. I tried Python Flask and it's, well, OK,
but kind of like trying to meld completely different things.

Do you guys think PHP might be the best route to take for my online web
game?

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt

Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
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