[thelist] CGI cart vs PHP cart

[Jacob Stetser]

Well, yes and no.. you can run PHP as a CGI that interprets your scripts (same as most perl implementations) but most hosts run it as an apache module, thereby putting it on the same level as ASP, CF and the like.

PHP as an Apache module on Linux is pretty darn fast, beating out CGI perl and ASP on IIS4/5, if the figures I've seen are correct. 

On Wednesday, October 25, 2000, at 12:06 PM, Scott Dexter wrote:

> > this from scratch. So the question is : Which is better(and  
> > why) CGI or PHP? 
> >  
>  
> by the by, php *is* CGI (Common Gateway Interface), just all fancy-schmancy 
> implementation of it. The difference is where CGI is the process of the web 
> server executing a process (any executable program, written in any language) 
> and communicating with it through stdin and stdout (i.e. the command line 
> and print statements, respectively), php, ASP, CF and the like bring the 
> execution closer to the web server process (by gettin all up in the web 
> server's business), taking out some of the overhead of CGI (among other 
> stuff, but I'm waving my hands a little here).  
>  
> I presume that when you say CGI, you're tweaking perl scripts? php, from 
> what I've seen of it, shouldn't be that much of a stretch, but I must admit 
> I've not seen much php other than what comes up on the list, but I think its 
> a fair sampling.... 
>  
> (I just wanted to point out the CGI thing) 
> sgd 
>  

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