LPM: Not quite Perl - PHP

John Soward soward at soward.net
Wed Aug 11 13:15:53 CDT 1999


David Hempy wrote:
> 
> Just saw this on CNet...
> 
> "PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting
> language."  I haven't used it yet, but it smells an awful lot like
> Perl.  It lets you embed right into your HTML document code that will
> be interpreted by the web server on its way to the client.  Hence, you
> can do stuff like this:

I've used PHP for a couple of years now. It's very nice, it's not perl,
but it is similar, and pretty easy for a perl programmer to pick up.
with mod_perl and things like Mason or Embed perl php becomes slightly
less attractive, since those devices allow for similar integration with
the web server. However, php still offers a few advantages, and php v4,
currently at beta release 2, will offer significant performance
advantages over mod_perl based applications...
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John Soward     
Lead Systems Programmer, Technical Services, University of Kentucky    
p: 606.257.2900x298  e:soward at uky.edu  w: http://neworder.cc.uky.edu/



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