Perl Configured VirtualHost question

2002-10-30 Thread siberian
Typically my manually configured vhosts look like this : NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.20:80 VirtualHost 10.0.0.20:80 ServerName BladeBla.com DocRoot ... ... /VirtualHost VirtualHost 10.0.0.20:80 ... /VirtualHost This works great for my statically configured hosts. How do you

Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm If nothing else this should be atleast generate some thoughts ?? It does show the mod_perl logo so I assume the comments are applying to mod_perl and not perl/cgi. Mithun -- Cons – There’s More Than

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm If nothing else this should be atleast generate some thoughts ?? It does: hooray! Yahoo is moving from a proprietary server-side scripting tool to an open source one. Great news for all of us, since

Quota module for Perl

2002-10-30 Thread Peter Kehl
Hi, i am trying to install the Quota module for Perl, but following error occurs: I´ve installed RedHat 7.1 mod_perl 1.24_01-2 perl 5.6.0-12 Has anyone got an idea? Regards Peter cpan install Quota Running install for module Quota Running make for T/TO/TOMZO/Quota-1.4.6.tar.gz CPAN:

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
--- Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm They also say they plan to continue using lots of perl in all the places they use it now: off-line processing, filling in the includes and dbm files that

Re: Same $dbh under different pids?

2002-10-30 Thread harm
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:06:45PM +, Richard Clarke wrote: Moi, a quick question: is it possible to have the 'same' dbh across the apache children even if you do your best not to? This minimalistic handler: use strict; package Foo; use Apache::DBI; use DBI; use Apache::Constants

RE: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Jeff AA
-Original Message- From: Mithun Bhattacharya [mailto:inzoik;yahoo.com] Sent: 30 October 2002 09:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ?? No it is not being removed but this could have been a very big thing for mod_perl. Can someone find out more details

Re: Same $dbh under different pids?

2002-10-30 Thread harm
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:05:51PM +0800, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: For the same reason that running this: $ perl -e'fork; { $foo = {}; print $$:$foo\n}' 1984:HASH(0x804c00c) 1987:HASH(0x804c00c) produces this for me, every single time I run this program You are assuming that if

reverse_proxy ?

2002-10-30 Thread Scott Alexander
Hi, In a test environment I have a apache front_end server and a apache mod_perl server both are on two physical different machines, plus another machine for the database. Our production server is one machine running only one instance of apache/mod_perl and another machine for the database.

Re: Perl Configured VirtualHost question

2002-10-30 Thread fliptop
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 at 02:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: :Typically my manually configured vhosts look like this : : :NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.20:80 : :VirtualHost 10.0.0.20:80 : ServerName BladeBla.com : DocRoot : ... : ... :/VirtualHost :VirtualHost 10.0.0.20:80 :...

Re: reverse_proxy ?

2002-10-30 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Scott Alexander wrote: [snip] Our production server is one machine running only one instance of apache/mod_perl and another machine for the database. [snip] Any ideas how I can have the documents on the front_end and still maintain some level of security. This

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.10.30 03:22 -0500 ) Perrin Harkins: They didn't make their decision on performance though. They seem to have been most influenced by the idea that perl allows too much flexibility in coding style, although I can't see how PHP is going to help with that. Wow, I'd like what *they*

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Gunther Birznieks
You would think if they want an anal scripting language they would move to python not PHP. :) John Saylor wrote: Hi ( 02.10.30 03:22 -0500 ) Perrin Harkins: They didn't make their decision on performance though. They seem to have been most influenced by the idea that perl

[OT] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread siberian
If they are going to inherently mangle their php and perl and lose that abstraction layer I think in 2 years they will look back and wish TMTOWTDI was their only problem That said, Kudo's to yahoo for being this public about it. These are the sorts of publically available presentations

[OT] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Richard Clarke
List, You are probably not the best people to ask for an answer which might advocate PHP, but. Can someone who is more proficient in PHP than I (I have used it for 5 minutes) explain to me why it is quicker to prototype things in PHP? I can't understand this statement.

RE: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
Hi John -- Quasi-seriously, as someone who has had to maintain mountains of bad perl code, I know TMTOWTDI can have a downside; but the openness of the language is what has lead to its greatness ... This doesn't have to be as big a problem as it often is. Having coding standards makes a big

AuthCookie Frames

2002-10-30 Thread FFabrizio
I'm having a slight problem using AuthCookie in our app because our app (unfortunately) is a frames-based interface. To summarize the problem and efforts I've made to date, my goal is to be able to display a message on the login page telling them why they are seeing the login page. Options are:

RE: [OT] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Stone, Derrick J
The first thing to note is that our working definition of intuitive here translates to: based on prior knowledge. PHP is a tag based language and places relatively complex functions at the fingertips of your average joe newbie. It is therefore more intuitive and remarkably faster to develop

RE: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Oscar Serrano
At 11:39 30/10/2002 -0500, Jesse Erlbaum wrote: Hi John -- Quasi-seriously, as someone who has had to maintain mountains of bad perl code, I know TMTOWTDI can have a downside; but the openness of the language is what has lead to its greatness ... This doesn't have to be as big a problem as

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Mike Schienle
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:39:07 -0500 Jesse Erlbaum wrote: Hi John -- Quasi-seriously, as someone who has had to maintain mountains of bad perl code, I know TMTOWTDI can have a downside; but the openness of the language is what has lead to its greatness ... This doesn't have to be as big

What's wrong on the line 149 of registery.pm from Apache 1.3.26

2002-10-30 Thread HLiu
Hi there, There is an error in the error.log that appears the line 149 of registery.pm from Apache 1.3.26 when I am running a CGI. Is it a bug for this type of error to appear so often? Thanks, Willy

[OT] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Tom Servo
Check out their online map site, they do use Python for that. snippet o' URL: http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=. You know you're going to have a bad day when you see the sun come up. Over the curb. Brian Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Gunther Birznieks

Re: [OT] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
Tom Servo wrote: Check out their online map site, they do use Python for that. I'm actually surprised they didn't go with Python, because the people I know there love it. If their backend data processing ever gets moved from Perl to something else, it would probably be moved to Python. -

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: No it is not being removed but this could have been a very big thing for mod_perl. Can someone find out more details as to why PHP was preferred over mod_perl it cant be just on a whim. Think about what they are using it for. Yahoo is the most extreme example of a

Re: Same $dbh under different pids?

2002-10-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
harm wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:05:51PM +0800, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: For the same reason that running this: $ perl -e'fork; { $foo = {}; print $$:$foo\n}' 1984:HASH(0x804c00c) 1987:HASH(0x804c00c) produces this for me, every single time I run this program You are assuming that

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Bill Moseley
At 02:50 PM 10/30/02 -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote: Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: No it is not being removed but this could have been a very big thing for mod_perl. Can someone find out more details as to why PHP was preferred over mod_perl it cant be just on a whim. Think about what they are using

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Rob Nagler
Perrin Harkins writes: The real application stuff is built in other languages. (At least this is the impression I get from the paper and from talking to people there.) I think Yahoo Stores is written in Lisp. I also believe it handles the front and back end. Would be interesting to know why

Re: Same $dbh under different pids?

2002-10-30 Thread Mrs. Brisby
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 14:52, Perrin Harkins wrote: harm wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:05:51PM +0800, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: For the same reason that running this: $ perl -e'fork; { $foo = {}; print $$:$foo\n}' 1984:HASH(0x804c00c) 1987:HASH(0x804c00c) produces this for

Re: Same $dbh under different pids?

2002-10-30 Thread James G Smith
Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: harm wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:05:51PM +0800, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: For the same reason that running this: $ perl -e'fork; { $foo = {}; print $$:$foo\n}' 1984:HASH(0x804c00c) 1987:HASH(0x804c00c) produces this for me, every single time I

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Tim Burden
I'm sure it is. This has been discussed on this list before: PHP in safe mode is much more likely to be found on the offerings of virtual hosting companies, which tend to use control panel things like Plesk, Ensim, or RAQ boxes. If you do get mod_perl you don't get to play with everything, it

Re: What's wrong on the line 149 of registery.pm from Apache 1.3.26

2002-10-30 Thread HLiu
Richard, Thanks for your comment. The error appears frequently, i.g. sometime works sometime not. Here is error message: Apache::ROOTapmoneywire_2emm_2eap_2eorg::qq::quickquote_2ecgi::handler ('Apache=SCALAR(0x3715f4)') called at /opt/apache/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/sun4-solaris/Apache/Registry.pm

Bricolage in eWeek

2002-10-30 Thread Aaron Johnson
This weeks print version of eWeek as well as the online version have an article on Bricolage. article - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,652977,00.asp Bricolage - http://bricolage.thepritgroup.com Aaron Johnson

Re: Same $dbh under different pids?

2002-10-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
Mrs. Brisby wrote: $ perl -e '$foo = {}; fork; print $$:$foo\n;' 18161:HASH(0x80fd254) 18162:HASH(0x80fd254) $ perl -e 'fork; $foo = {}; print $$:$foo\n;' 18163:HASH(0x80fd254) 18164:HASH(0x80fd254) I expected the first. I didn't expect the second. Thanks for the explanation. - Perrin

Apache::Peek and perl 5.8.0

2002-10-30 Thread John Siracusa
Does anyone have Apache::Peek working with perl 5.8.0? I can't get it to build, and I can't find the symbols it's (apparently) missing anywhere in perl 5.8.0's header files. Example: --- CPAN.pm: Going to build D/DO/DOUGM/Apache-Peek-0.9501.tar.gz Checking if your kit is complete... Looks

[OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Richard Clarke
Does anyone in the list use any kind of version control (e.g. CVS) for the perl/template codebase of their website? Now that my code base is growing I feel the increasing need to provide better version/backup control than my current hourly crontab tar. I don't however feel that the

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread siberian
We felt the same way but once we went to CVS we never looked back and can not imagine going with out source control. It may seem like the web doesnt fit that paradigm but if you break your modules up properly it works like a champ. We broke out into 'html','components',

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread HLiu
Richard, What's your operation system? Solaris or Linux? I use Solaris with CVS as the version control. It is very useful tool. You can also consider to use Solaris Package that is for installation and also the version control as well. Willy

RE: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Hsiao, Chang-Ping
CVS is easy to use but confusing at first. Once you get used to it, you should not complain. I don't quite get your saying I don't however feel that the organizational logic of a websites code base fits well into the CVS paradigm. Isn't your files hierarchical? If so, why is CVS not fitting

RE: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Nathan Hardt
I've wondered about this too. Mainly, if you have multiple developers working with the same web server, how would you test your scripts without running into each other? it seems like CVS would work well if everyone was developing on his/her own box. Nate -Original Message- From: Hsiao,

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread siberian
Just give each developer their own sandbox. We have gone from : 1 Apache proxy/1 modperl server to 1 apache proxy / 1 modperl per developer running out of their homedirs to each developer gets their own proxy and modperl. If you tune your apache min/max server stuff this is quite doable.

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Richard Clarke
John, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We felt the same way but once we went to CVS we never looked back and can not imagine going with out source control. It may seem like the web doesnt fit that paradigm but if you break your modules up properly it works like a champ. We broke out into

RE: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
Hi Richard -- Does anyone in the list use any kind of version control (e.g. CVS) for the perl/template codebase of their website? Every time! My team has been developing web sites with CVS for years now. I can't imagine doing a web project without it! It would be like.. Oh... Skydiving

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread siberian
We use CVS to do in-place upgrades on the live system for smaller updates. For the big stuff we bring the boxes out of their pools one at a time and upgrade them. In both cases, the worse case is that a user might see two versions of the same page in the span of 60 seconds if they catch us

RE: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
Hi Richard -- Do you use CVS checkouts to upgrade the live system or do you this manually. i.e. stop apache, tar and remove old code, untar new code, start apache et voila? On single-server web sites (as opposed to a site running in a clustered environment) a CVS checkout works just fine.

Re: Bricolage in eWeek

2002-10-30 Thread David Wheeler
On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 12:53 PM, Aaron Johnson wrote: This weeks print version of eWeek as well as the online version have an article on Bricolage. article - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,652977,00.asp Bricolage - http://bricolage.thepritgroup.com Holy shit! This is the

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Richard Clarke
Hsiao, Chang-Ping wrote: CVS is easy to use but confusing at first. This could be the root of my reservations. Once you get used to it, you should not complain. I don't quite get your saying I don't however feel that the organizational logic of a websites code base fits well into the CVS

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Tagore Smith
Rob Nagler wrote: I think Yahoo Stores is written in Lisp. I also believe it handles the front and back end. Would be interesting to know why this was left out of the discussion. Yahoo store was originally ViaWeb and was written in Common Lisp. It was one of the first large applications

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Jim Martinez
On Oct 30 Richard Clarke wrote: Does anyone in the list use any kind of version control (e.g. CVS) for the perl/template codebase of their website? Using cvs, I'm not sure of an elegant way to update. I'm worried about CVS subdirectories sitting under htdocs, to be specific. Perhaps I just

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread brian wheeler
Hear hear! We're using AxKit for our development and everyone has a copy of the entire site (many thousand files) in their home directories on the development machine and its been great! No more I didn't touch it but it stopped working problems :) It also allows everyone to experiment with

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Richard Clarke
Jim Martinez wrote: On Oct 30 Richard Clarke wrote: Does anyone in the list use any kind of version control (e.g. CVS) for the perl/template codebase of their website? Using cvs, I'm not sure of an elegant way to update. I'm worried about CVS subdirectories sitting under htdocs, to

RE: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
Hey Jim -- Also, Randal Schwartz wrote about cvs is a slightly more general setting: http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-07/perl_01.html The system we use goes a bit beyond even what Randal describes (although, he is on a similar track). In a nutshell, the Apache httpd.conf file is templatized to

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Ken Miller
Hey Jim -- Also, Randal Schwartz wrote about cvs is a slightly more general setting: http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-07/perl_01.html The system we use goes a bit beyond even what Randal describes (although, he is on a similar track). In a nutshell, the Apache httpd.conf file is

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread siberian
Who needs network guys, reverse pop the ssh tunnel ;) I find it amazing that so many of us are doing the exact same thing in terms of managing our large site installs yet its nowhere to be found in any FAQ, knowledge base or general forum. I know on our side we developed these solutions over

hangs on $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}

2002-10-30 Thread Michael Forbes
My apologies in advance if this is something that's been described solved before... I can't seem to find the answer in archival searches (maybe I'm just using the wrong terms). At any rate, I have a fairly large script that I wrote when operating under Apache 1.3, perl 5.8.0, Redhat 7.3. I'm

RE: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread wsheldah
Hi Jesse, I really like your approach, and appreciate your explanation. I'm wondering how you handle the packaging and installation; do you just use a shell script to put the different pieces where they belong, or have you devised something else? Right now I'm also using CVS for my web

DBD::Oracle/Windows2000 OK from prompt, not mod_perl?

2002-10-30 Thread Larry Leszczynski
Hi - I'm having a problem on Windows 2000 where DBD::Oracle works fine from perl on the command prompt but not from inside mod_perl. I think it is a problem loading DLLs but I can't figure out what's different running under mod_perl. The machine is running: ActiveState perl 5.6.1 build 633

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Rob Nagler
Tagore Smith writes: I think it would be harder to hire people to work on his system (of course you'd probably also get more experienced people, so that might not be such a bad thing). This raises the $64 question: If you could hire 10 PHP programmers at $50/hour or 4 Perl programmers at

Re: DBD::Oracle/Windows2000 OK from prompt, not mod_perl?

2002-10-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
Larry Leszczynski wrote: I'm having a problem on Windows 2000 where DBD::Oracle works fine from perl on the command prompt but not from inside mod_perl. I think it is a problem loading DLLs but I can't figure out what's different running under mod_perl. The machine is running: ActiveState

RE: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Bill Moseley
At 04:47 PM 10/30/02 -0500, Jesse Erlbaum wrote: Web development projects can map very nicely into CVS. We have a very mature layout for all web projects. In a nutshell, it boils down to this: project/ + apache/ + bin/ That requires binary compatibility, though. I have a similar

RE: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
Hi Richard -- Thanks for the extensive info, I am curious Assuming your website is made up different sections, would I be correct in assuming that the files this section depends on are finite? e.g. bin/section_a.sh cron/section_a.crontab template/section_a.html

RE: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Hsiao, Chang-Ping
This could be the root of my reservations. Why do you think people always talk about re-organize? :-) Indeed, I don't get what I'm saying either. My organisation is something like (slightly over-simplified), _lib/Example/Control/section_a.pm _lib/Example/Control/section_b.pm

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread siberian
We check in all of our perl modules into CVS and its a _MAJOR_ life saver. Keeps everyone on the same path so to speak. I don't believe in transfering _any_ binaries around, every binary recompiles on its new platform at install time. All modules, apache, external software etc. This

RE: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
Hi Wes -- I really like your approach, and appreciate your explanation. I'm wondering how you handle the packaging and installation; do you just use a shell script to put the different pieces where they belong, or have you devised something else? Something else! Files don't get installed

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Iain 'Spoon' Truskett
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [31 Oct 2002 09:47]: [...] I find it amazing that so many of us are doing the exact same thing in terms of managing our large site installs yet its nowhere to be found in any FAQ, knowledge base or general forum. I suspect a lot of us are so used to

RE: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
Hi Bill -- project/ + apache/ + bin/ That requires binary compatibility, though. I have a similar setup, but the perl and Apache are built separately on the target machine since my machines are linux and the production machine is Solaris. Binary incompatibility is not a

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Bill Moseley
At 03:21 PM 10/30/02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We check in all of our perl modules into CVS and its a _MAJOR_ life saver. Keeps everyone on the same path so to speak. I think I confused two different things: perl module source vs. installed modules. Do you check in the source or the

Re: DBD::Oracle/Windows2000 OK from prompt, not mod_perl?

2002-10-30 Thread Larry Leszczynski
Hi Perrin - I'm having a problem on Windows 2000 where DBD::Oracle works fine from perl on the command prompt but not from inside mod_perl. I think it is a problem loading DLLs but I can't figure out what's different running under mod_perl. The machine is running: ActiveState perl 5.6.1

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Cristóvão Dalla Costa
Perrin Harkins wrote: They also have more of a need than most people to integrate with C/C++, and I've been told that it's easier to hack those into PHP. What a joke.

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
Cristóvão Dalla Costa wrote: Perrin Harkins wrote: They also have more of a need than most people to integrate with C/C++, and I've been told that it's easier to hack those into PHP. What a joke. Have you written C extensions for both Perl and PHP and think Perl is easier? Most people

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Iain 'Spoon' Truskett
* Perrin Harkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [31 Oct 2002 14:26]: [...] Have you written C extensions for both Perl and PHP and think Perl is easier? I've only written XS for Perl. Not touched PHP with any C stuff. While I must admit that my early XS was crap, that's mostly my fault. Last time I

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
Iain 'Spoon' Truskett wrote: In general, it makes sense that a simple language would be simple to extend with C. That's why people like TCL. They do? =) Sure. That's why Vignette used TCL: adding your own C commands to the language is easy. Probably the same story for AOLServer. -

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Cristóvão Dalla Costa
Perrin Harkins wrote: Have you written C extensions for both Perl and PHP and think Perl is easier? Most certainly, using SWIG. I didn't have to recompile Perl two or three times, or read Perl's source to figure out what to do. The PHP docs on the subject were misleading and innacurate

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-10-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Richard == Richard Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Does anyone in the list use any kind of version control (e.g. CVS) for Richard the perl/template codebase of their website? Yup. Even wrote a column about it: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col38.html -- Randal L.

newbie:How to get form input in mod_perl 2 since Apache::request is not implemented yet ?

2002-10-30 Thread BuffaloRC Club
Hi all, I am a newbie to mod_perl and going straight to mod_perl 2. Have successfully written basic handler (API). Have not installed mod_perl 1.x Not using Apache::compat. ( Donot intend to use CGI.pm either ) In this case how to use methods from Apache::Request like $q-param() etc? I can get

[O] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Franck PORCHER
Let's prey that those PHP geeks quickly discover the true joy of working with functionnals (map and al.). I have often wondered about the ratio of Perl programmers still using the C-like for construct. I guess it's rather low. Franck. On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Tagore Smith wrote: Rob Nagler wrote:

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Michael Johnson
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Gunther Birznieks wrote: You would think if they want an anal scripting language they would move to python not PHP. :) Python isn't anal--it's a very clean, interesting, flexible language on par with perl--perhaps superior in some ways and not as good in others but,

Re: [OT] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread Michael Johnson
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Richard Clarke wrote: List, You are probably not the best people to ask for an answer which might advocate PHP, but. Can someone who is more proficient in PHP than I (I have used it for 5 minutes) explain to me why it is quicker to prototype things