Re: Modperl advocacy site

[James Powell]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 04:18:01PM +0000, Mark Fowler wrote:
> 
> More importantly, as sites get bigger there tends to be more and more
> stuff that needs to be done by batch jobs etc.  Currently we're
> duplicating a lot of functionality in Perl shell scripts that we could
> have stolen if they were originally written in PHP.
> 

This is something I've thought for a while, and is very important.
A simple example is code for validating an email address
(already available on CPAN, so even less work if you stick to Perl).

I think if you use PHP's CGI binary you can do something incredibly hacky,
for batch jobs, but euurgh...


jp