On 29 Aug 2002 at 19:47, Jesse Erlbaum wrote:
> I notice that you are using mod_perl AND mod_php.
>
> I have a general question for the list: Do people often use BOTH of
> these environments at the same time? It seems to me that there would be
> little benefit to using both. Am I mistaken?
Most people on this list, it seems, work on rather large sites where
they have at least ONE server. I work on small mom-and-pop sites which
run on virtual servers. PHP is far, far easier to deploy on these
ubiquitous virtual servers. I have in fact moved my apps from mod_perl
because the market is just not there if your audience is mom-and-pop
(ymmv). This is my primary server:
> Apache/1.3.26 OpenSSL/0.9.6g (Unix) ApacheJServ/1.1 mod_perl/1.21
> PHP/4.0.6
BTW, since someone asked about PHP code, I have been doing a lot of
work in PHP lately. I took over for some Russian programmers on one
project .... no comments, none, at least 100 php files throughout the
site, proprietary templating system, scope is not by file but by site
:) And I've been working on jawamail and that's quite fun. I would much
rather work on code written by others in Perl than what I see in PHP.
Most of the PHP reminds me of the older Perl4 style where a programmer
might repeat the same code very 20 lines :) But there are some good
things written in PHP, it's just that there are a WHOLE lot more people
writing PHP than Perl (just look at the mailing lists and script
archives).
Peter
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