Fw: PHP or Perl? (or Rebol via TCP/IP)

2003-08-25 Thread D De Villiers \(Work- AKURA\)
Hello Tim, Do've an example on using Rebol to connect to mySQL via TCP/IP? How do you do it? How do you execute SQL quieries? Return results etc ? Do you use some kind of middleware that your communicating to from Rebol via TCP/IP which gets the data for you? I'm actually a Delphi, Java, VB,

Re: PHP or Perl? (or Rebol via TCP/IP)

2003-08-22 Thread D De Villiers \(Work- AKURA\)
Hello Tim, Do've an example on using Rebol to connect to mySQL via TCP/IP? How do you do it? How do you execute SQL quieries? Return results etc ? Kind Regards, Lennie De Villiers -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:

Re: PHP or Perl?

2003-08-17 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi Where to start For a pure web system, I would recommend PHP. It is smaller, faster and interfaces better with apache. This was its design goal. For a non web system, it has to be PERL. For a mixed system, I would again favour Perl, due to its flexibilty and power. I am currently

Re: PHP or Perl? (or Rebol via TCP/IP)

2003-08-17 Thread Tim Johnson
I hope I don't start a relegious war here I just want some advice. Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I program with C, C++, python and rebol. My partner use perl. We do lots of stuff with MySql. My hands-down favorite is rebol. I find more code-efficient than any other language that I

Re: PHP or Perl?

2003-08-17 Thread Markus Jais
Hello I am no PHP expert but I find it quite easy to move from Perl to PHP. PHP too has a huge standard library with lots of useful functions and it has PEAR, something similar to CPAN. but when I develop MySQL appliction (mainly for myself at the moment) I use Python or Ruby

Re: PHP or Perl?

2003-08-17 Thread Joel Rees
People tell me that PHP is THE way to do database work with mysql. The thing is, I'm familiar with Perl and it has all kinds of neat string manipulation stuff and LWP. People have opinions. My personal opinion, but I think of PHP as Perl with all the warts filed off, but I also think

Re: PHP or Perl?

2003-08-17 Thread Joel Rees
The only advantage of PHP is that it runs faster than Perl which may be important if a lot of people are accessing your web page. Using mod_perl vs. mod_php? or perl with the CGI interface vs. mod_php? (I understand that using mod_perl introduces persistence problems when globals are not

Re: PHP or Perl?

2003-08-17 Thread Eric Frazier
The only and best careful way to use a global is not to use one at all!! At 11:38 AM 8/18/03 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: The only advantage of PHP is that it runs faster than Perl which may be important if a lot of people are accessing your web page. Using mod_perl vs. mod_php? or perl with

Re: PHP or Perl?

2003-08-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 15), Mark Healey said: As part of my own learning mysql project I'm planning to build databases for all my books and DVD's. Stephen Hawking is probably a better typist than I am so I plan to use barcodes to get the info ,taking the information from various web

Re: PHP or Perl?

2003-08-16 Thread mos
At 12:17 AM 8/16/2003, you wrote: As part of my own learning mysql project I'm planning to build databases for all my books and DVD's. Stephen Hawking is probably a better typist than I am so I plan to use barcodes to get the info ,taking the information from various web sites. People tell me

Re: PHP or Perl?

2003-08-16 Thread O'K Web Design
be the best. Any pages that just list your records, I would build in PHP. Any that involve handling the data before output, I would use Perl. Mike - Original Message - From: Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 16, 2003 1:17 AM Subject: PHP or Perl? As part of my

Re: PHP or Perl?

2003-08-16 Thread Jackson Miller
is pretty robust in that area. The biggest advantage to Perl that I see is that there are more libraries and such available for Perl, but the PHP community is working on that. -Jackson - Original Message - From: Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 16, 2003 1

PHP or Perl?

2003-08-15 Thread Mark Healey
As part of my own learning mysql project I'm planning to build databases for all my books and DVD's. Stephen Hawking is probably a better typist than I am so I plan to use barcodes to get the info ,taking the information from various web sites. People tell me that PHP is THE way to do database

execution time in PHP v. perl

2001-03-10 Thread Tac/Smokescreen Action Network
I'm porting some code from perl to php, and have experienced a tremedous slowdown in one particular query, and I'm perplexed as to why. The query is simply "Select * From my_table order by ID desc LIMIT 0,20", to get the last 20 records that were entered. ID is the Primary Key, and

Add, modify and delete entries with PHP or Perl

2001-02-10 Thread Nuno Lopes
Hi, I would like to know how to add, modify and delete entries with PHP or Perl, because I want to create a table in mysql and and don't know how. The table look like this: -| time spent on-line | leads | mailling list |e-mail