[Cialug] network tool

[David Champion]

I would agree. PHP has a stronger presence as a web scripting language 
than Perl, mostly because of its ease of use, but Perl is a better 
multi-purpose tool. You can do cli scripting in PHP (in mdk, just 
install the php-cli rpm), but I don't think that's going to come close 
to replacing Perl or Python in that arena.

The thing I really like about PHP is due to its popularity, there are 
tons of examples and OSS projects out there to learn from.

-dc

Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> PHP, in my opinion has a shorter learning curve and can handle 99% of
> the web-based scripting that you might want to do. Perl tends to have a
> slightly longer learning curve, but is also a good tool for 99% of what
> you need to do, and a better choice for the 1% of the weird things you
> might want to do.
> 
> :) Dave
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 08:45, Tim Berneman wrote:
> 
>>Oh, and also mySQL and PHP.
>>
>>What's the concenses of PHP vs. Perl?
>>
>>Tim :)
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org] On Behalf
>>Of Tim Berneman
>>Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 10:06 PM
>>To: cialug@cialug.org
>>Subject: RE: [Cialug] network tool
>>
>>
>>Actually I was typing in a "Long time lurker, first time post" message
>>with a question and I just decided to call the horse (Dave Champion ala
>>dc) and get it straight from his mouth. ;)  I musta accidentally sent
>>the message instead of deleting it.
>>
>>I did install Madrake 10.1 and I got my webserver up and domain pointed
>>to it and with Daves help figured out there was a problem with the A
>>record at the DNS server and got that fixed.
>>
>>My next step is to get an email server running.  And then ftp.
>>
>>Hope I don't embarrass myself her with my lack of knowledge.
>>
>>Tim :)
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org] On Behalf
>>Of David Champion
>>Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 11:10 AM
>>To: cialug@cialug.org
>>Subject: Re: [Cialug] network tool
>>
>>
>>Tim Berneman wrote:
>>
>>...
>>
>>I think Tim was just saying "hi". He just installed a new Mandrake 10.1 
>>server yesterday, and is working on getting a web site up.
>>
>>-dc