[thelist] PHP

At 19:14 4/01/00 -0500, you wrote:

>- No external object for output caching

I feel stupid for asking, but what exactly do you mean?

>- Because form values and environment vars and other vars are made
>available as their name: $name rather than a collection:
>collection["name"] or collection("name"), there are that many more
>reserved words.

I've already run into that.  It is a pain, a kludge seems to be to name 
form elements something like FM_name

>What has stopped me from loving it is that it is an independant language. 
>Languages like ASP are 80% established scripting language. PHP on the 
>other hand... well... http://php.net/quickref.php3
>That scared me enough.

Hehe.  Yes, well.  The online manual does help a lot for navigating around 
all those functions.  What I liked about PHP was that it was quick to pick 
up since I know Perl and C++.  You guess a function, and it works.

If you actually go looking for a function, you have to muck about in the 
manual a little while..

Is there anything else that you *cant* do in PHP which you can with 
straight CGI (Perl)?

Ol.

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