PHP and ColdFusion Release Timeline

Posted At : September 3, 2009 11:55 AM
Related Categories: PHP,ColdFusion

I was reading the articles mentioned in this Ben Forta blog entry and decided to make a timeline of PHP and ColdFusion releases. The reason I was thinking of this was because one of the articles said that one of ColdFusion's selling points is frequent releases. This made me curious how often CF has been updated when compared to PHP. So I created this time line.

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Interesting...

Some of the .01 releases have been quite significant. CF 7.0.1 for instance brought a lot of Flex integration.

And of course you need to add CF9 which is going to be released on HAHA.
# Posted By Sam Farmer | 9/3/09 12:21 PM
Really? Is HAHA the expected release date? That's slightly discouraging!
# Posted By Mike Chandler | 9/3/09 12:32 PM
Well, this just proves ColdFusion is better - it has a higher release number! (And considering some of the lame attacks we get from PHPs, that's probably an appropriate argument back to em. ;)
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 9/3/09 12:33 PM
Plus ColdFusion is more concise, our acronym is only 2 chars in length vs theirs which is 3!! ftw!!
# Posted By CFRoolz | 9/3/09 12:53 PM
Yeah, and have you also seen on Facebook that nothing can have happened faster than "2 seconds ago". Clearly thats because it takes PHP more than a second to do anything!!
# Posted By Sam Farmer | 9/3/09 12:57 PM
cf is apparently 2.7 better than php. Soon to be 3.7
# Posted By Jonathan | 9/3/09 3:13 PM
Those are all funny comments, guys. :)
# Posted By Jake Munson | 9/3/09 4:36 PM
@CFRoolz: Actually, technically PHP is a recursive acronym. Which is an acronym stuck in a poorly-written, infinite loop.

P.S. I heard a rumor that the original definition of PHP was Pretty Hopeless Predicament.
# Posted By David McGuigan | 9/3/09 8:48 PM
+1 for David (written in CF)

+1 for David (written in PHP)
+1 for David (written in PHP)
+1 for David (written in PHP)
+1 for David .....
# Posted By CFRoolz | 9/4/09 5:14 AM
About 6 or 7 years ago I worked with PHP for about 2 days and decided that it sucked and I've been completely focused on CF ever since. Other than being free and looking very similar to the syntax of a language that a LOT of folks already know (C++) - what exactly does PHP have going for it that competing technologies don't have? What is the compelling reason to use it over CF or anything else for that matter?
# Posted By Andy Sandefer | 9/4/09 5:43 AM
@Andy,

To be fair, I don't think your 2 day experience is a real indication of experience...sure you didn't like it, but I'd want someone to use it for a length of time before declaring it a bad language when compared to others.

I am not a PHP developer, having only dabbled with it off an on over the years. But one thing that PHP does have going for it is popularity. Because it's so popular, there are tons of developers writing libraries and software for PHP. I'd wager that you could think of anything to do with a programming language and then look for it in PHP, and someone has done it. The ColdFusion community is getting better at this (lots of libraries and software available), but in my opinion we still don't measure up to PHP in this regard.
# Posted By Jake Munson | 9/4/09 5:49 AM
I did PHP for about 6-7 months before I discovered ColdFusion. 5 years and thousands of dollars in therapy later, I'm finally starting to heal.

The main two appeals of PHP are

1. Its popularity
2. It's free

#1 is a by-product of #2, not derived from any overly-appealing technological capabilities or developmental benefits. That said, probably the primary benefit of PHP compared to ColdFusion is its huge community, and all of the open source code and projects that you can leverage in your development.
# Posted By David McGuigan | 9/4/09 8:34 AM
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