Jenna,
I am most definitely not a programmer by profession. With that caveat in
place, I have to say that PHP is decidedly easier than Perl. To me, it's
analogous to working in a "4GL" vs a lower level language. Lower learning
curve, less coding. Of course, I don't think it's as functional as the R>
language but dems da breaks.
The folks here have told me that PHP can indeed be hooked in to RBase. I do
know that PHP has several ODBC commands (which I haven't had a chance to use
yet) which will let you connect to any ODBC compliant database.
Dan