Testing the PHP waters

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This could be really foolish, or it could be smart. I haven’t decided yet.

For those of you who haven’t been following along closely, I’ve been writing ChatSpring using Python and Django in the back end.

The benefits are….that I like python.

But there are a few problems:

The choice of python really messes up my plans to offer a self-hosted option for ChatSpring.

Also, not counting my unit tests, I have < 1000 lines of backend code. (All the good stuff is JS) All I’m using django for is to run queries and dump the output as JSON.

So I’ve decided to give myself 8 hours to see how much of my python code I can port to PHP / CodeIgniter / ADODB. I’m about 2 hours in, and already have a good chunk done.

If it looks like I can port everything in 1 week, I’ll take the plunge.