On Wednesday 02 April 2003 08:10, Bob Showalter wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > I have a PHP vs. Perl question for a hobby project of mine. Which | > would be the better language to use if I wanted to go out to a | > particular web page and parse the table that's there? How about if | > each row in the HTML table contains a link to another Web page which | > has information I want to grab? (BTW, the page I'm thinking of is the | > Catalog of Extrasolar Planets by Jean Schneider, at | > http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/catalog.html.) | > | > FYI, I've never done any Web programming. | | AFAIK, PHP is a server-side language. What you're describing is a client | application. I don't think you can write general-purpose client | applications using PHP (PHP guys correct me if I'm wrong!). I'm sure PHP | can do HTTP client stuff, but I think you still need to be operating in the | server environment. |
Nope. Actually, PHP can do both now. Before it was somewhat difficult to do...and even now it is a bit kludgy but it is absolutely possible. I am currently involved in a project that uses PHP for both web and non-web (CLI) related activitiy. I do have to admit that PHP's build is ridiculously difficult compared to Perl. | Perl has the LWP family of modules for doing HTTP client applications, as | well as various HTML and XML parsing modules that can be used for what | you're describing. -- - Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
