Re: Wordpress & PostgreSQL ...

Dawid Kuroczko wrote:
> On 10/26/06, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> wrote:
>> the wordpress guys have basically said they do not want to support
>> postgres,
>> which is mainly why we swapped to s9y on planetpg. you can read some
>> more
>> info here:
>> http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/13-One-Good-Port.html
>>
>
> Suppose one would like to create a WordPress workalike, i.e. a blogging
> engine sharing look&feel of WordPress but written from scratch. What
> language/framework do you think would be the best?
>
> I mean -- one could code that in PHP and simply use PostgreSQL, but
> PHP is probably the most popular language, but I don't think it's the
> best.
>
> Ruby on Rails perhaps? I have not written a single line in Ruby, but
> I've read on the list here that it has very good PostgreSQL interface...
>
> Python? Perl? Something different?
>
> The reason I'm asking this question is that I would like to hear personal
> experiences with alternative to PHP environments, how do they "feel",
> how do they scale, in order to boost my knowledge a bit.
If you want a mature alternative to PHP then take a look at Whitebeam
(http://www.whitebeam.org) This uses the Mozilla 'Spidermonkey'
JavaScript engine for server-side JS and uses Postgres as the back-end
database. At the moment it doesn't interface with any other databases -
but then not really much of a need :-)

I've used Whitebeam for my own blogging software as well other
communications functions (newsletters, discussion forums, e-zines,
e-commerce and I know others that have used the Postgres Interface for
some equally sophisticated applications. Take a look at
http://www.gadgetspeak.com as an example of what's possible. That latest
release of Spidermonkey even gives you a native 'XML' type so you can do
things like:
var myDoc = <doc><title>my title</title></doc>

Brilliant for putting together things like RSS feeds and for
implementing the SOAP/ XML-RPC blogging APIs

Pete
> Regards,
> Dawid
>
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