I am creating a web app that involves a lot of DB access and parsing and analysing data , Java is the language i am most comfortable with but recently have been told that I should consider to use PHP as it makes DB access protocols a lot simpler.
I dont have any great knowledge of PHP but would be willing to learn for use if it was going to be the better option as far as functionality , portability ect is concerned.
The Web app will run against an Oracle DB and use Flex for the GUI, Please any experiences of similar projects and what made your chosen approach better would help or just opinions of any sort.
If you’re comfortable with Java, I don’t see the need to learn/use PHP. There is nothing that PHP can do that Java can’t.
It’s true that by and large, PHP is a much more permissive language, and some tasks can be fulfilled more quickly and with less code. PHP certainly has less built-in abstraction than Java has. But if you’re comfortable with Java, I’d say stick with it.
(I’m saying this as a PHP developer.)