JAVA (JSF) or PHP

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Hello,
We are trying to start a social networking website, which is going to have several users. Before approaching to the development, we want to know If we use Java technologies or PHP. knowledge wise, we are good in JAVA (primefaces - JSF) framework and ok in php programming. Experts, please guide me with the right technology for my project.

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most large sites use c or java behind the scenes. php is script. c and java are binaries. They are faster.

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I suggets using java for larger projects such as that, assuming you can wind a webhost (or server).

My problems with PHP, quoted from another post of mine:
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1. It's Typing system is Sloppy
it's typing system (weak) is very, very sloppy. when I am writing a function I want to make sure that an argument passed is a certain object, but it could be a string or integer. Also it's hard to keep up with what variables are with weak typing. The typing system -- and yes, most other weak typed language's typing systems -- comes out as simple and sloppy. When you add the string "1" to "2", you should get "12", not "3", in my opinion.

2. No Real Overloading
I LOVE method overloading. Sometimes functions should just be able to handle different parameter lists in different ways. Take this Java example I wrote on the spot.
class Main {
  public String name;

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    new Main();
  }

  public Main() {
    storeName("Joe Blow");
    storeName("Joe", "Blow");
  }

  public void storeName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
  }
  public void storeName(String first, String last) {
    storeName(first + " " + last);
  }
}
Code (markup):
What I basically did there was I created a function to store someone's name in a variable. You can supply the name or you can supply the first / last names. The overloaded function, in this case, just calls the other version of it. PHP can't do this, but Java and C can, for example.

3. Hard to Code OOP
It's really hard for me to code OOP in PHP because of the dynamic typing. Maybe it's just me, but if you can't specify the type of variable which is being passed to a function (say, if it's a custom object) has to be.

4. Sloppy packaging
The PHP functions are packages horribly. There are no imports, so all of the functions are already defined in a messy jumble. Secondly, they are very poorly named. some are in camelCase, some use underscores, and some use glue (like htmlentities. The words are just glued together, no camelCasing or underscores)

5. Very Little OOP
I love OOP, but I just don't get the OOP feeling. When I'm coding PHP is feels like it's just pretending to be object oriented. There are so many thing sin PHP that could be done with OOP but weren't, which is probably because OOP was only released until a fairly late version.
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