Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-25 Thread Sigurd Gartmann
I'm a perl guy as well but haven't used PHP. I've used perl with Template Toolkit for Web based apps. I like the advantages Template Toolkit offers. The name of the templating engine for PHP is Smarty. emerge -s smarty * dev-php/smarty Latest version available: 2.5.0 Latest

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-25 Thread Daniel Jaeggi
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:37:57AM +0200, Sigurd Gartmann wrote: You should also take a look at python and mod_python. If you need templating, Cheetah is a good templating tool for mod_python. That is my favourite. I have used perl, php and python for web applications, and will say that

[gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best language to use with apache. I don't know both and going to learn one. I know that perl can be used standalone of php i don't know. All your thoughts are welcom. Patrick -- If we don't get more power to the warp drive

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 July 2003 20:24, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best language to use with apache. I don't know both and going to learn one. I know that perl can be used standalone of php

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Larry Meadors
Java. ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best language to use with apache. I don't know both and going to learn one. I know that perl can be used standalone of php i don't know. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Mike Roest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Marquetecken wrote: | Hi, | | I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best language to use with apache. I don't know both and going to learn one. | I know that perl can be used standalone of php i don't know. | | All your

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Mark Fisher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 July 2003 6:41 pm, Alan wrote: I'm sure some of my facts about PHP are wrong or outdated, and I've missed tonnes of pros and cons on both sides, but there you go :) I think it might come down to if you're doing this for just web,

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Steven Elling
On Thursday 24 July 2003 13:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer Perl for several reasons, but the most compelling is the Template Toolkit (http://www.tt2.org/). I simply haven't found anything as flexible and powerful for PHP. Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm a perl guy as well but

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread daniel
On July 24, 2003 02:24 pm, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I don't want to start a flame, but i'm wondering whats the best language to use with apache. I don't know both and going to learn one. I know that perl can be used standalone of php i don't know. perl is amazing. you can write cgi-scripts

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Joel Palmius
I second that. :-) Another difference between perl and PHP is which perspective they are using. In PHP you are in essence writing html pages which include code. In (most) perl you are writing perl code which prints html output. (I say most, since you can do PHP-style programming with perl too,

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Terje Kvernes
daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] for example, mail() is a php function that sends mail to someone. this capability is available in perl, but requires much more work on your behalf. in perl, you have to open a pipe to your mail binary, write to it and then close the pipe. eh,

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP or Perl

2003-07-24 Thread Christopher Egner
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:23, Joel Palmius wrote: Small data-driven applications which mainly is data-in data-out via a fancy interface: use PHP. Larger more complex project which may need to include complex string parsing: use perl. If you are going to write *really* large and complex