I feel like my primary concern would be getting the new Django app to play nice with the existing mysql database.
Has anyone had any experience doing this? Thanks.
e.g, how is:
Entry.objects.filter(
headline__startswith='What').exclude(
pub_date__gte=datetime.now()).filter(
pub_date__gte=datetime(2005, 1, 1))
easier than:
SELECT * from Entry where headline like "What%" and pub_date... wha? see? wtf is that chaining filter actually doing?
(nothing but quibbles with the templating engine, though)
for example, i can say:
grants = Grants.objects.filter(is_approved=True)
if not request.user.is_superuser:
grants = grant.filter(sponsoring_trustee=request.user)
"grants" isnt evaluated (queried) until its iterated over or otherwise called (print, for example), so i can keep building what i want as i go without having several sql calls or managing building a query via string concatenation. personally, i've always found django's orm to feel natural.
As long as your database design is somewhat decent you'll likely be ok. if not... well you might want to build a new model and migrate your data :)
But to answer your question, there probably wouldn't be any need to rewrite my application. PHP is very adaptable and scalable and will probably continue to suit my needs.