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PHP

Posted by Rohit Begani
Rohit Begani
5,614 Points

j2ee or php?

I want to know that whether I should use j2ee or php to code a website targeted towards a huge audience. I read somewhere that php is supposedly slower than j2ee. While I know that websites like facebook use php. So, I am confused that which language should I use?

4 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I'll just take a stab. I think the speed of the site depends way more on how you wrote the code, vs the language that was actually used. It seems that all of the major web applications are somewhat spread out amongst many of the languages.

I've never heard of j2ee until just now, but I know php has a huge following of users, and it seems fairly easy to find solutions to issues through either sites like stackoverflow or php documentation.

Which one should you use? Whichever one you're more comfortable with. That's just my opinion from my limited experience.

Randy Hoyt
STAFF
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher

I wouldn't expect the language choice to be the bottleneck. There are websites that are larger than yours will be written in both PHP and Java. There are all kinds of other issues that are more important to performance.

Rohit Begani
Rohit Begani
5,614 Points
Rohit Begani
Rohit Begani
5,614 Points

Thanks Kevin and Randy for your help.

Randy, can you please tell me what kind of issues are you talking about?

Thanks

Randy Hoyt
STAFF
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Speed of database queries. File size of static assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) and performance in the browser. Amount of RAM. Number of web servers. To serve millions of users, you'll need a sophisticated setup with a load balancer in front of multiple web servers, a CDN, page or object caching, and more.

Rohit Begani
Rohit Begani
5,614 Points

Okay thanks. I guess I got a lot to learn.