[WEB4LIB] Re: cgi or php?

[John Creech]

Hi Kati.  You may want to look at Developer Shed, a good site full of
development ideas using Open Source software.  There's an excellent
section on PHP. And there are good tutorials and book recommendations
available, among other things.

http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/

John Creech
Central Washington University Library


On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, TMGB wrote:

> IBM has been having quite a few Linux support pages on their
> developerWorks site.  The page at the URL below shows a simple short
> comparison of how Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Tcl perform similar tasks
> such as cgi, file reading and writing, etc.  So seeing that these
> languages are not platform specific, for the most part, this at least
> gives you a chance to see how to do the same action in different
> scripting languages.
> 
> http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/script-survey/?loc=007&t=nl0529&p
> 
> Another good link is:
> http://www.developer.ibm.com/library/library.html
> 
> >From that page: " The library is a collection of valuable technical
> information for developers. Some of the material is restricted to
> PartnerWorld for Developers members. If you haven't joined, do it today!
> "
> 
> Articles, books, brochures, developer briefs, magazines & newsletters,
> programmer's information, white papers, etc.
> 
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> Sunner wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Our new ISP has recommended that we convert all our home page cgi scripts to
> > php. We use scripts for a whole range of functions, but php appears to be
> > mainly used for database-type functions (or have a dropped behind the times
> > yet again?)
> > 
> > I haven't managed to locate any in-depth analysis of php as a general
> > scripting language and was wondering if anyone has used it and can comment
> > on advantages/disadvantages over cgi, general views, etc.
> > 
> > Any information you can share would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Kati
> > 
> > "Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Colette
> > 
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > John and Kati Sunner
> > 
> > Email for John at Frontier Economics: john.sunner at frontier-economics.com.au
> > 
> > Email for Kati at the Federation of Education Unions Information Centre:
> > katis at edunions.labor.net.au
> > 
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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