Re: [PHP] Loss of precision in intval()
Roberto Mansfield wrote: Internally, 75.82 can't be stored exactly, so 75.82 * 100 is probably 7581.92 rather than the expected integer value of 7582. So intval is behaving properly. Sounds like you want intval(round($a)); [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very weird and counter intuitive. Looking at the php manual, I see this: Converting to integer from floating point: When converting from float to integer, the number will be rounded towards zero. But you'd think the multiplication would happen before the rounding. if you do: $a = ceil(75.82 * 100); you should get the proper answer. This is what I used for testing: ?php $x = 75.82; $y = 100; echo x is . gettype($x) . br\n; echo y is . gettype($y) . br\n; $a = ceil($x * $y); echo a is . gettype($a) . br\n; echo intval(a) is . gettype(intval($a)) . br\n; echo $a . *** . intval($a); ? Not sure that really helps, but seems to be some kind of order of precedence issue. -TG = = = Original message = = = This sort of thing really isn't helpful... ?php $a = 75.82 * 100; echo intval($a); ? ___ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. Better yet: $a + 0, or (int)$a. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PDO statement/resultset
Hi everyone, Let me know if there is a better place to post this. I am playing with the idea of creating a true (KISS) abstraction layer that makes full use of PHP5's OOP support. So logically it would make sense to make use PDO wherever possible, however, one of PDO's design decisions was to make a prepared statement object also a result set (another question: ... why?) a script can not make use of the a statement more than once without completely fetching all the data it needs from the first query, before executing the next. A likely scenario is that the prepared statement is executed and then before the script is done with processing the result, the same statement (with different binds) will need to be executed again, also using the result set from that statement. Does PDO provide a method to deal with this problem? From what I understand the only solution would be to prepare a new statement for each query, even for queries with the same structure which defeats the purpose of a prepared statement(?) Is there a solution that is a bit better? Regards, David -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: string highlight
Sebastian wrote: i'm looking for a function that can highlight certain search terms in a string. anyone have something already made that i can plugin to my exisiting code? I found a couple but they do not work very well.. some break html code if the string contains the keywords in the html. thanks. You can use str_replace to highlight the search terms. For example, you could use the following code for each search term (this function also accepts arrays, see http://php.net/str_replace): str_replace ($search_term, b$search_term/b, $body_text); - David -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: string highlight
David Duong wrote: Sebastian wrote: i'm looking for a function that can highlight certain search terms in a string. anyone have something already made that i can plugin to my exisiting code? I found a couple but they do not work very well.. some break html code if the string contains the keywords in the html. thanks. You can use str_replace to highlight the search terms. For example, you could use the following code for each search term (this function also accepts arrays, see http://php.net/str_replace): str_replace ($search_term, b$search_term/b, $body_text); - David I forgot to mention that if you wanted to have a highlighting effect, you will need to use stylesheets. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Starting/Reviving a Workshop
Hello, I'm thinking about reviving a 'workshop' I had a while back because of a recent post I found at a forum. The foundation is already set up, and I would like to see how many people are interested. This workshop is for CGI scripts mainly PHP and Perl, but PHP takes precedence over Perl. Everything is Open Source (under GPL) and on CVS. If you are unfamiliar with CVS, I'll have a tutorial set up shortly. David Duong -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: .htpasswd and PayPal generated passwords
Try http://www.php.net/md5. Use md5 to encrypt the password, then when you need to check from login just encrypt what is given, and see if this matches the md5 found in the database. - David Rob Packer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I use PayPal to generate a username and password and then write them to the .htpasswd file. If I were to switch to using a database (because .htaccess seems to always prompt twice!) how would I perform the comparison for the passwords? It would seem that everytime you generate an encrypted password it's different. So how would you compare them? Also, does anyone know what the encryption method used by PayPal is? Thanks for any help... Robert Packer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: .htpasswd and PayPal generated passwords
btw - What do you mean by paypal generated passwords? I am interested in using PayPal as an alternative to my current credit card handler. Just a link is appreciated. - David Rob Packer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I use PayPal to generate a username and password and then write them to the .htpasswd file. If I were to switch to using a database (because .htaccess seems to always prompt twice!) how would I perform the comparison for the passwords? It would seem that everytime you generate an encrypted password it's different. So how would you compare them? Also, does anyone know what the encryption method used by PayPal is? Thanks for any help... Robert Packer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] How do I set UID and GID to files.
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[PHP] How do I get the name of the script?
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Re: [PHP] How do I get the name of the script?
Thnx for hte help, I wanted to keep register globals off, its a security hazard. Philip Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message Pine.BSF.4.10.10207140050140.63499-10@localhost">news:Pine.BSF.4.10.10207140050140.63499-10@localhost... You have many options. Do a call to phpinfo() and note all the predefined variables, such as PHP_SELF. There is also the __FILE__ constant, print that too. Why do you request a function? If it's because $PHP_SELF is not set, that's because the PHP directive register_globals = off. Go through the predefined server array instead, it's sexier: print $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; See also: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php Regards, Philip Olson On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, David Duong wrote: Is their a function that returns an equivalent of $PHP_SELF? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] another splice?
Is their 1 function method to remove an element within an array using its key instead of its position within the element? I am looking for a substitution for placing removing an element without having to make another array just to list all the array elements and then using that to specify where to splice. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Discard the previous message.
Is their a 1 function method to remove an element within an array using its key instead of its position within the array? I am looking for a substitution for placing removing an element without having to make another array just to list all the array elements and then using that to specify where to splice. David Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Is their 1 function method to remove an element within an array using its key instead of its position within the element? I am looking for a substitution for placing removing an element without having to make another array just to list all the array elements and then using that to specify where to splice. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: newbie regex question..
I am not quite sure but this will do the trick: ?php $fixedfile=img src=\http://64.4.14.24/spacer.gif\; width=1 height=2; $fixedfile=preg_replace(/src=[^]*?/,src=\!---image goes here---\, $fixedfile); #preg_replace(/[search]/,[replacement],[string]); exit ($fixedfile); ? I have made some differences from what you were trying to do: I used preg_replace, I added to the replacement since without it you would get: img src=!---image goes here--- which would be incorrect HTML (img src= would be correct). A note From a PHP manual.: preg_replace(), which uses a Perl-compatible regular expression syntax, is often a faster alternative to ereg_replace(). Kelly Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 002701c22832$3992e800$6501a8c0@yourw92p4bhlzg">news:002701c22832$3992e800$6501a8c0@yourw92p4bhlzg... Hi folks, I'm trying my hand at some pattern matching, and I have a question. I need to take all the text between the title tags of a page, and replace it. This I can do, with the following: $fixedfile=ereg_replace(title.*/title,title? echo \$bstitle; ?/title, $fixedfile); works like a charm Now I want to delete everything in the src section of an image tag, so I'm trying this: $fixedfile=ereg_replace(src=\.*\,src=\!---image goes here---\, $fixedfile); but this doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Kelly -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: File Uploading Question
Go to http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html; It gives an example. Press Find on Page (ctrl+F for Internet Explorer) and type in Style Sheet, you should find what you are looking for by reading the paragraph and any below that concern Style Sheet. For more info about Style Sheets do a search for style sheet or CSS. Nick Oostveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I've got a (hopefully) simple question which is indirectly related to php. I'm currently developing an application which includes functionality to allow users to upload image files. Does anyone here know of a way to customize the look of the HTML file input type? By this I mean changing the browse button to a graphic, hiding the text field, etc. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Get difference between strings.
How would I get the difference between strings? Example: ViewCVS can browse directories, change logs, and revisions of files. It can display diffs between versions and show selections of files based on tags or branches... This was word for word from sourceforge project ViewCVS, however ViewCVS was written in Python. Is their a way for PHP to Display the 'diffs' between two submitted text? Lets say the user submitted a text file stored as $textin, then the script displays the 'diffs' (including what was removed) between it and a previous text stored as $otext. I just need to be pointed in the right direction. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Making varibles (more than one) with a function.
If that works than the why does test file I tried previously to making the
post return a $text does not exist error?
?
echoo();
function test() {
$text = Testing;
global $text;
}
function echoo() {
test();
echo $text;
}
?
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From: David Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: May 22 2002 04:21 PM
Subject: [PHP] Making varibles (more than one) with a function.
I am aware that return can return strings but is their a set global or a
function similar to return?
hi there!,
There sure is, it's called global.
Usage:
global $variable_a;
global $variable_b;
global $variable_c;
...
HTH,
Dw.
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[PHP] Re: Making varibles (more than one) with a function.
Ok, I see.
You have to declare global first and then assign value.
David Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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How could I have a function create variables that can be used in other
functions?
_Example_:
makevars() {
list($md5,$pusername,$pproject,$pfile) = explode(:,$authok);
$user = $pusername;
$project = $pproject;
$file = $pfile;
}
function display () {
makevars();
echo $user,$project,$file;
}
I am aware that return can return strings but is their a set global or a
function similar to return?
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[PHP] Making varibles (more than one) with a function.
How could I have a function create variables that can be used in other
functions?
_Example_:
makevars() {
list($md5,$pusername,$pproject,$pfile) = explode(:,$authok);
$user = $pusername;
$project = $pproject;
$file = $pfile;
}
function display () {
makevars();
echo $user,$project,$file;
}
I am aware that return can return strings but is their a set global or a
function similar to return?
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[PHP] Your Open Source Projects wanted.
Hello, I'm David Duong of the CGI open source Foundry. We are looking for a script to produce. If you have a good script an would like some programmers to help develop it I invite you to visit http://cosf.sourceforge.net. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: MySQL or FlatFile
I am referring to whole PHP/Perl files. It is necessary to load them as much as 20+ times within the same hour what would be better MySql or Flatfile? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] MySQL or FlatFile
To store large values (100k+) and load them as much as 6+ times within the same hour what would be better MySql or Flatfile? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] SourceForge. Whats the worst part about it?
Hello, Currently I am using SourceForge for a variety of Projects and now some issues have surfaced concerning SF quality. Now I am now wonder what is the worst downfall about SF? Now SourceForge is a very great tool as mention earlier, it is a very useful tool in Open Source and I am quite sure many people believe that also, I would also like to hear from this side. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Tracking impressions
Hello, I need a script that can track impressions through PHP. I know you load a php script from IMG tags than some how the image is loaded or redirected. Is their a way I can record impressions and environment variables like IP, Browser, referrer, etc. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Creating forums in php
Maybe, http://www.phpbb.com -David. Boaz Yahav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... http://www.phorum.org ? Sincerely berber Visit http://www.weberdev.com Today!!! To see where PHP might take you tomorrow. -Original Message- From: Denis L. Menezes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Creating forums in php Hello friends, I am running a website having php and mysql support on which I want to set up a discussions forum. Can someone advise me any web resources for building a php-mysql forum? Thanks denis -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Mysql adding extra fields.
How do I add extra fields after it has already been set? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] COSF needs members More Info
COSF will be a CGI foundry that produces scripts from: - The existing projects of its members (which means if you have a project in the works which was supposed to be finished a year ago right before you started on the new one) - The Scripts which have been abandoned because the scripter lost his/her interest in. - From the brain child of any of our members. I am planning to make a CGI Open Source Foundry We will start in stages. After the Foundry is initially set-up we will begin to release scripts. The main goal would be to improve our skills, start something and actually finish it quickly and better than designed. The CGI Open Source Foundry is designed to help Perl/PHP developers find help and resources to improve the Open Source CGI community. We plan to have the CGI Open Source Foundry built by late-summer (refer to our schedule). We plan on using this site to share ideas, post news of our progress on the foundry and various other projects, and recruit programmers. We are looking for our first members to test and see if this is going to work. COSF will be producing Perl and/or PHP scripts for the open source community, most under the GNU Public License, -their may be a few sold under other licenses-. This is how COSF will operate: A developer will either start a project from his/her own projects or take up an abandoned/dead project from http://sourceforge.net or other places on the net. The developer can assign other developers to help them organize the project. The project then posts an entry on COSF's open projects board and uses COSF's groupware tools to help them collaborate on the project. The script is then distributed through COSF and where ever the developers desire. This was taken from the about page of the COSF site, so the formatting may be a little off. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] The CGI open source foundry needs members - Reedited
Is their anyone who would like to join the CGI Open Source Foundry (COSF)? COSF will be a CGI foundry that produces scripts from: - The existing projects of its members (which means if you have a project in the works which was supposed to be finished a year ago right before you started on the new one) - The Scripts which have been abandoned because the scripter lost his/her interest in. - From the brain child of any of our members. I am planning to make a CGI Open Source Foundry After the Foundry is initally set-up we will begin to release scripts. The main goal would be to improve our skills, start something and actually finish it quickly and better than designed. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Perl NewsGroup?
I didn't put mailing list I meant Usenet lists. Bvr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Why not try www.perl.com ??? I found: http://www.perl.com/cs/user/query/q/6?id_topic=50 bvr. David Duong wrote: This may be the worst place to put this but here goes: Does anyone know of a Perl NewsGroup? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: what is the difference between function and language construct?
empty -- Determines whether a variable is set
gives a boolean result.
$var = 0;
if (empty($var)) { // evaluates true
echo '$var is either 0 or not set at all';
}
if (!isset($var)) { // evaluates false
echo '$var is not set at all';
}
I don't think that
?php
if (empty($a=5)) {
echo 'ok';
} else {
echo 'bad';
}
?
would work. Try:
If you want to see if variable is empty, if it is change it to 5.
?php
if (empty($var)) {
echo 'ok';
} else {
echo 'bad';
$a=5;
}
?
-- OR --
If you what to see if $a == 5 than
?php
if ($var==5) {
echo 'ok';
} else {
echo 'bad';
$a=5;
}
?
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why this get wrong?
?php
if (empty($a=5)) {
echo 'ok';
} else {
echo 'bad';
}
?
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[PHP] What is the PHP version of Grep?
I was wondering what is the equvilent of the perl coommand: grep. Can you list all the files in a certain directory and put it in an array. Can you list all the files with *.htm in a certain directory and put it in an array. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Perl NewsGroup?
This may be the worst place to put this but here goes: Does anyone know of a Perl NewsGroup? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: I need help building The CGI Open Source Foundry (COSF)
Does anyone have a PHP project that you need more help on? David Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... The objective of this foundry is to develop scripts that will be usefull to anyone. We will be producing scripts from scratch when we have a good script in mind, but most of the time we will be working on scripts with high potential that a member has created.. What I mean by marketers is people who are incharge of distributing the script. Thus most of their time will be spent marketing. David Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I need some experienced people to become managers of the CGI Open Source Foundry (COSF)? I am planning to make a CGI Open Source Foundry We will start in stages. Stage 1 getting initial members (Hard Part) - Once we gain 10-20 members we will start stage 2. Stage 2 Dividing them into groups (members can be in multiple groups) - Managers - Head(s) of the specific groups. - GUI - Members with strong webdesigner skills - Database - File Wizards - Good with file manipulation - Clean-up - Clean up the source - General Developers - Resource - Find servers to host this - Marketers - Those who will distribute the scripts. - Newbies/Learners - Webmasters - See Stage 5 Stage 3 Finding/Creating a Groupware script that will allow us to all to work on single or multiple scripts. Stage 4 Decide what would be the perfect first project. This project may be an existing one in the makes with high potential, or something from scratch. (Ten people on one script may sound crazy but I think it will work if we planned it out.) Stage 5 Making the main site. The site will include a place to Release and Plan all our scripts. I have my eye on SourceForge.net as host. After the first stages well start making other scripts that will be of use. If your interested or have comments than your input would be appreciated. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: I need help building The CGI Open Source Foundry (COSF)
The objective of this foundry is to develop scripts that will be usefull to anyone. We will be producing scripts from scratch when we have a good script in mind, but most of the time we will be working on scripts with high potential that a member has created.. What I mean by marketers is people who are incharge of distributing the script. Thus most of their time will be spent marketing. David Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I need some experienced people to become managers of the CGI Open Source Foundry (COSF)? I am planning to make a CGI Open Source Foundry We will start in stages. Stage 1 getting initial members (Hard Part) - Once we gain 10-20 members we will start stage 2. Stage 2 Dividing them into groups (members can be in multiple groups) - Managers - Head(s) of the specific groups. - GUI - Members with strong webdesigner skills - Database - File Wizards - Good with file manipulation - Clean-up - Clean up the source - General Developers - Resource - Find servers to host this - Marketers - Those who will distribute the scripts. - Newbies/Learners - Webmasters - See Stage 5 Stage 3 Finding/Creating a Groupware script that will allow us to all to work on single or multiple scripts. Stage 4 Decide what would be the perfect first project. This project may be an existing one in the makes with high potential, or something from scratch. (Ten people on one script may sound crazy but I think it will work if we planned it out.) Stage 5 Making the main site. The site will include a place to Release and Plan all our scripts. I have my eye on SourceForge.net as host. After the first stages well start making other scripts that will be of use. If your interested or have comments than your input would be appreciated. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] I need help building The CGI Open Source Foundry (COSF)
I need some experienced people to become managers of the CGI Open Source Foundry (COSF)? I am planning to make a CGI Open Source Foundry We will start in stages. Stage 1 getting initial members (Hard Part) - Once we gain 10-20 members we will start stage 2. Stage 2 Dividing them into groups (members can be in multiple groups) - Managers - Head(s) of the specific groups. - GUI - Members with strong webdesigner skills - Database - File Wizards - Good with file manipulation - Clean-up - Clean up the source - General Developers - Resource - Find servers to host this - Marketers - Those who will distribute the scripts. - Newbies/Learners - Webmasters - See Stage 5 Stage 3 Finding/Creating a Groupware script that will allow us to all to work on single or multiple scripts. Stage 4 Decide what would be the perfect first project. This project may be an existing one in the makes with high potential, or something from scratch. (Ten people on one script may sound crazy but I think it will work if we planned it out.) Stage 5 Making the main site. The site will include a place to Release and Plan all our scripts. I have my eye on SourceForge.net as host. After the first stages well start making other scripts that will be of use. If your interested or have comments than your input would be appreciated. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP CGI
I mean any time you hear the word CGI it is rarely referring to PHP, always Perl (My most comfortable Web language). You'd think that CGI only refers to Perl. If you goto a site and download scripts under category CGI you would be downloading Perl scripts, PHP has its own category. Should CGI still mainly Perl even though PHP is somewhat easier, quicker thus easier suited for CGI. I think the meaning of CGI is quite blured. Anyone else think so? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, David Duong wrote: Can PHP be considered CGI? Sometimes. CGI is a standardized interface between web servers and backend applications. PHP can communicate with web servers using that mechanism, but it doesn't have to (depends on the web server in use). I think the problem here is that you're not asking the question you think you're asking. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what you're really trying to figure out. Would PHP replace Perl as the main language of CGI? Who knows? It might. Its use is growing rapidly, and it's much easier to learn. A few years ago the prospect would have been unthinkable, due to the vastly greater supply of Perl CGI web apps and free libraries in circulation. These days the advantage is not so strong. And PHP is far better optimized for the specific task of web application development. On the other hand, Perl is in the abstract a more powerful language. So many programmers will continue to prefer it. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
