Bruce, On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 15:42, Bruce Timberlake wrote: > > > I am not to familiar with PHP. So you are saying that you can use > > PHP from a shell? Like a Perl or Python script? > > Yep. Just do "php whatever.php" and away it goes. There's a php > binary in /usr/bin.
Good to know. I was just not sure if PHP had a single binary executable or not. > You can test by making a test.php in any directory and putting > > <? phpinfo(); ?> > > in it, then do "php ./test.php" and watch the HTML spew forth. :) Fun little thing to do. I may have done that a while back when I was looking into alternatives to ASP. I liked PHP more than ASP, but compared to what I can do with Java. Well there was no comparison in my opinion. Programming and scripting languages are in different leagues. > Upon further research (Chilisoft forums) about ASP and cron, the lynx > kludge I mentioned is the only apparent way to "script" ASP via cron > or commandline: > > http://developer.chilisoft.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1663 > > So it can be done, just not as elegantly as with PHP, Perl, etc. So I am not to off base, but I would not recommend people go down that route unless they have to. I bet that PHP does not have anywhere near the overhead that ChiliASP generates. Not to mention additional things like the lynx command. If the original requester must use ASP. I would email that guy on the link above doing a similar thing, and ask him about the overhead. -- Sincerely, William L. Thomson Jr. Support Group Obsidian-Studios Inc. 439 Amber Way Petaluma, Ca. 94952 Phone 707.766.9509 Fax 707.766.8989 http://www.obsidian-studios.com _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
