Thinking of PHP Application Development with Oracle Database
A web application project for our undergraduate program was in the making. There are agreements of leveraging open source programming language like PHP which very popular to developers. The only concern is on how will it work well with proprietary Oracle Database, especially on data security.
Developers don’t lack the choices available when building web applications. There are many different architectures, frameworks, platforms, and approach that web developer faces. We’ve been working with PL/SQL Programming Language and Oracle Database for some time already, but recent trends kept us reviewing the long term approach. Rising cost of software licenses and shortage of skilled programmers are some factors that make us rethink moving toward open source solution.
Java Programming with Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) was considered. Another was Oracle database and the Microsoft .NET platform to create web applications. However, due to the available resources and time constraints we have; we’ve finally settled with PHP coupled with Oracle Database for web application development.
There could be better web application development strategy, but in our case, we’ve matched the availability of skilled programmer with our IT resources. In the end, whatever is the tool used, application developers still need to connect users to information with web applications.
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009 at 7:15 pm under 