Re: Can PHP use Perl
First of all, I'm not an expert on PHP. But, I believe you cpan has modules like Mason that could give you what you want w/o messing with PHP. Actually, I'm not real big on mixing presentation layers with code and you might consider using mod_perl or FastCGI instead. That being said, why do you want to mix PHP and Perl? Is it in order to use Perl DBI? If so, PHP, I believe, has a similar db interface available (???I think)???. I don't think you really want to mix PHP and Perl unless you have a really really good reason to do so. PHP alone probably has the capabilities you are already looking for. If not and you have the flexibility to pick which tools you are going to use, write the whole thing in Perl. If you know Java well, maybe write a Java servlet. I would try posting a question like this to a more general Perl mail list (look at www.perl.org for a list) since this is a mailing list for DBI issues. You will probably find more help there. Good Luck, --Curt On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dexter Coehlo wrote: Howdy dbi-users, I know a lot of here use perl, How can if possible can I use Perlin PHP, I now know PHP is another script language. But I believe I heard you can embed Perl into a PHP page. That PHP as I thought was a technology like ASPallowing embedding different languages within PHP tags. Thanks for helping Dexter
Re: Can PHP use Perl
The reason for using Perl I thought was because I thougt PHP was like ASP which was a technology with some tags to put another language code like perl into but I learned it is a language in itself. Dexter On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Curt Russell Crandall wrote: First of all, I'm not an expert on PHP. But, I believe you cpan has modules like Mason that could give you what you want w/o messing with PHP. Actually, I'm not real big on mixing presentation layers with code and you might consider using mod_perl or FastCGI instead. That being said, why do you want to mix PHP and Perl? Is it in order to use Perl DBI? If so, PHP, I believe, has a similar db interface available (???I think)???. I don't think you really want to mix PHP and Perl unless you have a really really good reason to do so. PHP alone probably has the capabilities you are already looking for. If not and you have the flexibility to pick which tools you are going to use, write the whole thing in Perl. If you know Java well, maybe write a Java servlet. I would try posting a question like this to a more general Perl mail list (look at www.perl.org for a list) since this is a mailing list for DBI issues. You will probably find more help there. Good Luck, --Curt On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dexter Coehlo wrote: Howdy dbi-users, I know a lot of here use perl, How can if possible can I use Perlin PHP, I now know PHP is another script language. But I believe I heard you can embed Perl into a PHP page. That PHP as I thought was a technology like ASPallowing embedding different languages within PHP tags. Thanks for helping Dexter
Re: Can PHP use Perl
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dexter Coehlo wrote: The reason for using Perl I thought was because I thougt PHP was like ASP which was a technology with some tags to put another language code like perl into but I learned it is a language in itself. I thinking trying to embed PHP and and Perl (via Mason, embPerl, et al) would be a bad idea, because a handler would need to parse the file for each language (yes, PHP is a language), so each file would get parsed twice. This would be horribly inefficient. I have done sites that had separate pages as PHP and Perl CGI, but not on the same page. At any rate, PHP and CGI stuff is really off-topic for this list. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ It is a wise father that knows his own child. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
Re: Can PHP use Perl
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dexter Coehlo wrote: One other question to educate myself, mod_perl and Fast CGI. Is there much change in regualr Perl syntax or is it the same , just a different technology? I remeber considering mod_Perl to sustain db connection. I can't speak for Fast CGI, but with mod_perl, there is a module called Apache::DBI for establishing persistent database connections, and it works invisibly with DBI. The main issues with mod_perl is that you can't get away with sloppy programming like you can using plain old CGI Perl development. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair. -- George Burns
