[Solved] Technology stack selection : PHP, Ruby on Rails with World Press [closed]

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Well ok maybe I get the reversal badge for this I will answer your questions:

  1. WordPress, the CMS you are probably talking about, is written in PHP. MySQL is the usual way to go. You could also run it with PostgreSQL as DB for instance but it may complicate things further.

REST APIs can be created in almost any programming language. There is nothing wrong with creating those in PHP.

You can customize WordPress to the end of the world (press) if you have the programming skills to do that. However it is not recommendable to use WordPress for certain use cases e.g. big e-commerce websites as there are limits/challanges in scalability and performance.

  1. The choice between Ruby on Rails and PHP is dependent on the project requirements. Both languages have advantages and disadvantages. WordPress is written in PHP. Compared to PHP Ruby on Rails is better in terms of performance. However this largely depends on the source code written.

  2. The choice of the library to be used for a forum depends on your project requirements. It is probably not a good idea to write a forum software from scratch. However I do not know your requirements.

Final suggestion: Try to minimize your project requirements and use the most simple (but sufficient) approach you can find.

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solved Technology stack selection : PHP, Ruby on Rails with World Press [closed]