PHP & (new) Website

[Peter Verhagen]

Don't forget http://freshmeat.net and http://sourceforge.net are great
places to search for scripts too (although more likely to be database
driven).
While I am at it, I'm going to plug http://extra.sapl.ab.ca - a "Library and
Technology" extranet site of my own initiative running on PHP discussing
(you guessed it) Libraries and Technology.

If you or your library has a script you have always wanted to share with
other libraries, compress then email it to me and I'll make it available for
downloading.

One of the downloads I use on my libraries public web site is called
"Form2Mail", a perl script that sends the contents of a simple feedback form
to an email box you specify - without the use of "sendmail" program. I'm
running this script with good results on my Windows 2000 Server using
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ , a free binary download
containing both a Perl command line interpreter and Perl ISAPI plugin for
IIS.
Comments, suggestions, downloads and content all are very welcome via my
email or the web site.

Thanks,
Peter Verhagen
Systems Administrator
St. Albert Public Library
webmaster at sapl.ab.ca

> At 07:41 AM 3/13/2002, Peter Scott wrote:
>>I've been testing out some PHP scripts to use on my various websites,
>>particularly those that can be used instead of javascript, and which
>>don't require interaction with a database. I've been downloading them
>>from http://www.hotscripts.com and http://www.phpbank.net
>>
>>Questions: has anyone else been doing this? are you using these scripts
>>on your sites? do you have examples? is there any reason NOT to use
>>them?
>
> Thomas Dowling wrote:
>
> I can't speak for these particular scripts, but I've become a PHP fan
> in  general.  Only knock against it recently was a security hole posted
> last  week: make sure you have installed the required upgrade or patch
> from  www.php.net.
>
> I find it interesting that you're specifically targeting scripts that
> don't  interact with databases.  I originally started playing with PHP
> because my  antique Perl skills were giving me fits doing SQL
> interactions.  But for  other tasks I still tend to think Perl first.