--- Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you notice, no one talks about mod_php. Instead they talk about > PHP.
Well, there are a few reasons for that, and none of them have to do with PR really. First, PHP was not created as a general-purpose scripting language. There is now a command-line interpreter (I'm sure the thought of shell scripts written in PHP make some of you shudder), but it wasn't there until recently. In fact, referencing this is very clumbsy, and most people call it the PHP CLI. So, it gives us something like this: Perl:mod_perl::PHP CLI:PHP Another reason for the naming habits is that PHP runs on more Web servers than Apache, and only the Apache SAPI is called mod_php. And, because mod_php doesn't implement the full Apache API (another rarely-used and experimental SAPI called apache_hooks does), there isn't anything significant to distinguish mod_php from any other the other SAPIs, so you'll almost never see it referenced in conversation. Anyway, there's a PHP guy's perspective. Chris -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
