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==ARCHIVE -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Wetters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 6:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl vs. PHP? PHP is a good templating language, similar to ASP, JSP, etc. The problem with templating languages is that they're too good. It's always tempting for the programmer to introduce yet another small piece of logic into a page. It extremely difficult with these templating languages to abstract the various layers of a moderately complex application. Many applications can be split into three layers (model, view, and controller). The model is the underlying structure of your data, which won't differ whether you're accessing the data through the web, the command line, or a GUI. The view is a thin skin which presents the model on a particular platform (HTML, text, Tk, etc.). The controller validates user input, and decides what happens next. Templating languages are excellent for building the view layer Using mod_perl and template toolkit, or servlets and JSP, or COM and ASP, it's easy to write applications with clear boundaries between layers. With only the templating language, the model and controller are forced into the view layer, which soon becomes unmaintainable. However, PHP is fine for building quick and dirty webpages, which is what most people want. -- Nigel Wetters, Senior Programmer, Development Group Rivals Digital Media Ltd, 151 Freston Road, London W10 6TH Tel. 020 8962 1346 (direct line), Fax. 020 8962 1311 http://www.rivalsdm.com/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ==ARCHIVE **** DISCLAIMER **** "This e-mail and any attachment thereto may contain information which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property rights and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by other persons than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer". Thank you for your cooperation. For further information about Proximus mobile phone services please see our website at http://www.proximus.be or refer to any Proximus agent. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
