[phpesp-dev] phpESP code quality

[Stefan C. <sch...@ea...>]

Dear you all,

I DON'T WANT to start any flame here  but the code quality of phpEsp is rather 
poor. Lots of replicated code ("go to management" links, authentification, 
queries,...). I raise a hand here because one of my managers totally 
disagrees with the use of PHP stuff (because they have coldfusion licenses) 
and I fear he's gonna watch the code and say "Mr Champailler you 're just a 
very bad coder, code is way too hard to maintain". I just tell that to you so 
that you think about it before going that direction. I had an enormous 
advantage with phpEsp in hand : it's there, it works and it allowed me to 
work on the specification _before_ writing too much code, just because it was 
there as a very good basis for the job. Unfortunately, I just realize that 
this advantage  it's pretty hard to explain (dollars?)  to a manager 
(although a technical one).

I'm stating the obvious, but now that I see how easy it is to forget it, I 
just feel the urge to talk about it :)

So this was more to share an experience rather than to criticize things I 
didn't make myself. Don't go mad, I love you all :)

stF