[thelist] Down at the Crossroads

[Ornstein, Ian]

Before you venture into Perl tank a look at the future:
http://www.byte.com/feature/BYT20000201S0001
Besides Perl, there is Python and now Zope!

Ian Ornstein - Programmer and Web Developer
IBM Global Services, Global AMS Delivery
(704) 509-8022 


-----Original Message-----
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:29:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Quackamoe <quackamoe at yahoo.com>
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Down at the Crossroads
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org


I have a decision to make and would like some 
guidance. I'm familiar with the relative merits
of PHP/MySQL and Perl/DBI/MySQL. I feel certain that 
either one will do what I need. I don't know PHP at 
all; I do have a working knowledge of Perl, but not 
DBI. Also no MySQL or any kind of db stuff. Well, 
I've gotten Perl to talk to a flat file, but that's 
about it. I'd love to learn both, and intend to, but 
I can't learn both this week, and certainly can't
deploy the site in both. So, starting where I am now,
which approach can get this site up and running the
sooner. Go with Perl because I already know it some,
or dive into PHP from scratch because it's easier to
learn and get running? Also, which one will be more 
helpful in getting me a job in a month or so? ;-)

<requirements>
Visitors - hopefully lots of them - will upload photos
of items for sale, along with a descriptive text and
their name, address, email addy, etc. The photos will
be optimized and thumbnails created (by ImageMagick?).

Then html pages will be generated as needed. That's 
about it. Oh, and email will be sent to the webmaster 
that something has been posted.
</requirements>

<environment>
My hosting company has Perl 5.6.0, PHP4, and MySQL 
running on RedHat 7.
</environment>

TIA for any rational comments - religious and flamish
posts --> Trash.

Terry Fowler