PHP5 Vs. CakePHP Vs. RubyOnRails?

OldJavaHack writes "If you could start a website (with MySQL for persistence) from scratch and you had a choice of PHP5, CakePHP, or RubyOnRails — which would you choose and why? Things to consider in your decision: 1. Maturity of solution; 2. Features; 3. Size of community of skilled users (to build a team); 4. Complexity/ease of use (for neophytes to master); 5. Greatest strength of your choice, and the greatest weaknesses of the other two. Here is a comparison of capabilities."

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Re:Sure

[king-manic]

I've worked with JSP and it is okay. I don't know how scalable it is as the user base was counted on two hands. I know PHP scales pretty well as several notable projects are coded in it (Wikipedia). Having worked with JAVA applications I can attest it is not a good language to make a mission critical app in. In fact it drove a very large number of tech tickets. PHP is the flavor du jour of the net because it's widely available thus has many proficient users. JSP is niche as far as I can tell and it's the big corprate push for java that sustained it. Java script is ubiquitous but thats client side.