Hi,

I would like to know your opinion on PhP. Could you please tell me some Advantages/Disadvantages that PHP has over Perl.

Thanks,
Kurt

Hi. This is quite a debate. Most people on these forums would swear by Perl, and say that PHP is a load of rubbish. However, if you went to other sites, they may say that its the best thing since sliced bread :p

Its more a personal thing really. I know Perl quite well (not saying I'm amazing), but I could also write you a PHP application quite easily (not as easy as if I was doing it in Perl).

The one good thing I like about PHP, is how easy it makes it to connect to MySQL, and the error catching.

The main thing I don't like, is their Regex engine. I've never found it to work as well as Perl ...i.e;


I've yet to work out how to do similar stuff in PHP :(

I could go on for hours about pet-hates and stuff in PHP .... but overall, its quite a good language to learn, if you don't want to do too much complex stuff. There are some quite heated debates on this forum about this too :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Cheers,
Me

Ok thanks for your opinions and i read over those sites that you gave Stealth.....basically I guess its just an easier language to write scripts in. I might try to code a webpage in php just to be somewhat formalier with it.

Thanks,
Kurt

i like this part: