From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 13 16: 8:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACDB14CAB for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:08:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mothra.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.76.220]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA34339; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:07:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <382DFC0A.745A45F9@owp.csus.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:02:18 -0800 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Jesse Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CGI PHP4 Port In Progress References: <0vaeoi85g0.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Roland Jesse wrote: > > "Jason C. Wells" 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