We are two developers in the web department .
I am a java programmer and my college aims for php.
He argues that php is a better over all choice for us due to all plugins out there,
but he has almost no experience in programming php.
Our needs are to make it possible for our customers in a new web app to
- upload pdf documents
- submit meta data
- other users will login and read the pdf and metadata and then validate them
The web app will have to
- connect and use a database
- create a web service call (to an external ERP system) if the article numbers etc, are valid
- send relay smtp mail if errors exist
- move pdf files on an file server from one path to another
As I see it we need to make a choice between
- OpenCMS with customization, Apache, MySql
- Java, Stripes Framework, MySql,
Tomcat (tailor-made from scratch with html/jsp templates)
- Php, plugins, Apache, MySql
Feel free to add more choices if needed
Cheers,
G