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

[Adrya Stembridge]

Thirding LAMP stack for simple and quick development project.

On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 9:24 AM Allen Beddingfield via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> 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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> ________________________________________
> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of Steve Litt via Ale <
> ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2024 8:58 PM
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> Cc: Steve Litt
> 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
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