<DIV>Other than web programming what would be the advantage of using PHP over perl?<BR><BR><B><I>Tony Bibbs <tony@tonybibbs.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Sorry for not noticing you saying that earlier. Was on vacation last <BR>week so I haven't dug out of all the email yet.<BR><BR>Yeah, I like using PHP particularly at work as I usually hook-up PHPDoc <BR>to produce documentation for the sys admins. I'm sure by know Perl <BR>probably has something similar.<BR><BR>--Tony<BR><BR>David Champion wrote:<BR>> I mentioned earlier in the thread that I'd done a little PHP shell <BR>> scripting, but not much.<BR>> <BR>> Ideally it would be nice to make use of common PHP libraries between web <BR>> & cmd line scripts. I usually get lazy and create PHP web pages that I <BR>> then call with a wget or something. Then I don't have to worry about <BR>> having the php cmdline version available...<BR>> <BR>> -dc<BR>> <BR>> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:<BR>> <BR>>> I'm not doing it at the moment, but if I needed to
write larger shell<BR>>> scripts I would definitely do them in php.<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 12:51, Tony Bibbs wrote:<BR>>><BR>>>> Am I the only one scripting with PHP? Most on this list probably <BR>>>> know you can do it but I seldom see many PHP shell scripts. I know <BR>>>> one of the issues is that Perl is generally included with most <BR>>>> flavors of *nix but anymore the same seems to be the same with PHP.<BR>>>><BR>>>> I'm not meaning to start a flame war on PHP vs Perl, just curious if <BR>>>> others do it.<BR>>>><BR>>>> --Tony<BR>>>><BR>>>> David Stout wrote:<BR>>>><BR>>>>> WOW thank you, I have this web site book marked these are great <BR>>>>> things to know as I take on my new position. I will of course be <BR>>>>> bouncing a few questions off to you guys here and there as the road
<BR>>>>> become a little rough.<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> Thanks again,<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> */Kenneth Ristau <KRISTAU@KRISTAU.NET>/* wrote:<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> Josh More wrote:<BR>>>>> > I *strongly* recommend the book _Learning Perl_<BR>>>>> > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/<BR>>>>> ><BR>>>>> > Once you've read that one cover to cover and done all the<BR>>>>> examples, read<BR>>>>> > _Programming Perl_ cover to cover.<BR>>>>> > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> And once you've digested enough of those two and are looking for a<BR>>>>> handy, online reference, check out http://www.perlmonks.org<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> later,<BR>>>>> kristau<BR>>>>> -- Tired programmer<BR>>>>> Coding late into the
night<BR>>>>> The core dump follows<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> My GNUPG public key is available at<BR>>>>> http://www.kristau.net/public_key.asc<BR>>>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>>>> Cialug mailing list<BR>>>>> Cialug@cialug.org<BR>>>>> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug<BR>>>>><BR>>>>><BR>>>>><BR>>>>> David Stout<BR>>>>> Business Forms Analyst<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Cialug mailing list<BR>> Cialug@cialug.org<BR>> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Cialug mailing list<BR>Cialug@cialug.org<BR>http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR>David Stout<br>Business Forms Analyst<p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You
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