Drawback of php

Discussion in 'PHP' started by cancer10, Nov 14, 2007.

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    Hey,

    I was wondering if there is/are any drawbacks/limitations of php over other web languages?


    Thanx
     
    cancer10, Nov 14, 2007 IP
  2. tonybogs

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    Perhaps the biggest drawback is that there is no garbage collection.

    Someone inexperienced in using PHP can easily run into memory issues because of this.
     
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  3. Dollar

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    PHP leaks are bad. Often exposing your code. But not a serious problem.
     
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    What is a leak?
     
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    Dollar Active Member

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    Its when there is I belive a memory timeout/error and it lets the user download the PHP file that is being proccessed by the server. It will throw up the php file to be downloaded.
     
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    Some say that it's too loose and gives programmers bad habbits. I don't blame PHP but the programmers themself. One problem is lack of namespaces in the current version, apparently this will be fixed in the new version, though :)
     
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