[thelist] PHP v Perl

[Jeanne Edna Thelwell]

At 12:35 PM 8/9/2001 +0530, you wrote:
>Jeanne, If you know Perl you'll pick up PHP in a couple of weeks. (Its very
>similar to Perl). The advantages of using PHP over Perl are many. PHP
>integrates well with HTML (it was made for the web... unlike Perl). Yes,
>Perl is a very powerful language and can do almost anything, but PHP scores
>better on the Net. I was a CGI-Prel man before PHP came along. Now almost
>all my sites are PHP.

I'm comfortable in Perl, so that's good to know.  This is exactly the kind 
of information I was looking for.

>Resources:
>Professional PHP (Wrox)
>PHP 4 in 24 hours (Sams)
>MySQL by Paul duBois (Since you would like to know MySQL sooner or later)
>By the by, check my tutorials on MySQL at
>http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/tutorials/sql/index.php3

These are all really useful.  I can limp about in MySQL; my webhost 
provides it and the message boards I've tried out all link with it.

Thanks.  You guys are the best! :)