This is intriguing. I wonder if it's possible to have php work both
ways? Probably not. I'm pretty much strictly PHP for the web with
tidbits of Perl, and Perl for everything else such as cron jobs. I like
PHP's format - it's very clean and easy to program in. Who knows - maybe
the Perl guys and the PHP guys will get together and create a new
incarnation with the best of both worlds...

Mike

Mike Cantrell wrote:
> 
> Wow, thanks for the info. It makes sense, I just havn't heard of anyone else
> using it like that. I tried PHP for awhile and I liked it... it was very
> elegant but I never went too far into it... I have too many other things I'd
> rather learn first.
> 
> "although perl probably is more suitable for most tasks, use it to do
> various things..."
> 
> That's probably true for now at least. It will be interesting to see what
> happens when more libraries are written for it. I'd like to see where it's
> at in a few years. Actually, I'd really like to see what Perl is like in a
> few years as well. I like the idea of re-writting Perl 6 with C++.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike Cantrell
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Peoples" <hondaman@mainex1.asu.edu>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
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> 
> > compile it like a cgi...not as a module (./configure instead of
> ./configure
> > --with-apache.....) ...then you can, although perl probably is more
> suitable
> > for most tasks, use it to do various things...
> >
> > eg, at home, i have quite a few cron'd php proggies that do some db stuff
> > for me, that aren't involved w/the web. they work essentially the same
> way,
> > except the first like of my cron'd php proggies, i have
> #!/usr/local/bin/php
> > [plus the appropriate args...]
> >
> > another example is some netmon stuff i'm working on...pinging
> boxes/routers,
> > making sure certain services are running on other boxes, etc etc...i could
> > do this with shell scripting and some c or perl, but, i prefer php, and it
> > does what i need it to do, so i use it...for me, it's the right tool for
> the
> > job