On Nov 16, 2003, at 02:07 pm, mike karthauser wrote:
On 16 Nov 2003, at 11:21, Mark Benson wrote:
FWIW I run an e-commerce site at work that uses a PERL/CGI based solution and it works impeccably on any computer I've ever tried it on :).
we decided last year that instead of learning A SP*IT* we'd go the PHP route rather than hacking perl. PHP is very easy to pick up and can be combined with straight html a lot easier than perl/
I don't have to do the coding so i don't care (it's a pre-fab package). It's not the greatest solution but I'm not the only person who has to use it. I'd rather have a slightly untidy solution that my boss could use if I was away than have a perfect coding solution that no-one could use apart from me. The emphasis was on speed not perfection, and now it's going there is no way I could get persuade anyone it needs rewriting to do something that would take a short ice age and they would see virtually no change. I am working for a company that only understands one 2 things - Land Rovers and money.
I refuse to go anywhere near ASP. Why pay when you can go open source?
Precisely. PHP is better and GNU so your not paying to be ripped off :).
www.php.net
Bringing this back to something on topic - is PHP available in the personal web-sharing on OS X Panther?
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