[thelist] PHP

Well,

I haven't really meddled with PHP yet, but a drawback for me is that you
need a new HTML (PHP) page for each task. I prefer the old fashioned Perl
way, but that's just something personal.

One thing that's sure is that you'll have less control over what happens,
and the code I've seen gets quite messy when the system gets bigger.

But, for a lot of jobs it can certainly be better. If you don't care too
much about portability that is.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Oliver Lineham <oliver@lineham.co.nz>
To: <thelist@lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: [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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