Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:02:18 -0800 From: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> To: Roland Jesse <jesse@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CGI PHP4 Port In Progress Message-ID: <382DFC0A.745A45F9@owp.csus.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911140148340.27352-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <0vaeoi85g0.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
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Roland Jesse wrote: > > "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> writes: > > > PHP Version 3.0 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. > > Well, that was sort of my whole point. You mentioned that you > completed a port of a command line version of PHP without much testing > of its HTML scripting capabilities. That made me wonder... > > Roland > To answer your question about using PHP as a scripting language, like perl. The answer is yes, however the authors don't have that as a goal so it's not something would come under the normal use of PHP. If you want a general purpose scripting language use Perl. If you want a web server side scripting language use PHP ( or perl :-) Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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