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Drupal is written in PHP but I still love it

Submitted by develCuy on Sat, 2010-02-06 10:29

My d.o profile says that I'm a 3 years old drupaler, and I love it. From my personal vision, God blessed me a lot since I'm working with Drupal. Not only in my job, also had the wonderful opportunity to meet so nice people, and visit 3 new countries in just one year!

What about PHP? well..., we have a trading agreement :D

Drupal is becoming more attractive for bigger projects, unfavorably there exists an issue increasing: The Performance. Likewise I consider that this is not due to Drupal design, or its implementation, it occurs because IMHO PHP is slow.

Now, FLOSS is about freedom right? well, I want to keep working with Drupal forever and be free of PHP. Perhaps some day! who knows :)

Blessings.

Do you really think that the

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-05-31 10:55.

Do you really think that the drupal bottleneck is the PHP performance?
Don't you think that the Drupal design doesn't help to the performance? What about the number of queries that a page requires? what about the number of modules that a big proyect requires?

Drupal is a great CMS but it is not fast and it is not due PHP, the database bottleneck is a bigger issue.

Seems like you don't know that much about it

A bit off-topic

Submitted by develCuy on Sun, 2011-07-10 23:09.

In drupal 7 database performance has been improved, and there are plenty of ways to distribute database load (memcached, mongodb, ...). What about PHP? we can scale out (add more more PHP instances) but that is of course not an option for shared hosting. We can also scale up...

Anyway, this is getting off-topic. The reason for my post is in the title, many people dislikes PHP for whatever reason, but that is not necessarily a reason to dislike Drupal.