Hello, I have a ~5500 line monolithic Perl script that I distribute with my commercial application for processing forms on any Web server that supports CGI and Perl. Perl has been a wonderful platform because of its portability. However, people are now suggesting that my program also support PHP, so I began reading about PHP at http://www.php.net.
I have also searched the archives in this list for tips and suggestions when porting Perl to PHP, but haven't found much so far. Can someone point me to references that may be useful for porting Perl to PHP? I'd like to hear about the experiences of others who have done this. Also, from my reading, it sounds like some of the features I might need in PHP are considered extensions. For example, my Perl script makes heavy use of searching and replacing using regular expressions. I've read on the PHP web site that Perl-like regular expression support is now part of the typical installation of PHP (maybe I got this wrong). My concern is, well, that means there are probably many installations of PHP out there that don't have this support, so I would need to tell people that if they were to use my PHP script, they'll need to install a few things like support for regular expressions. In my case, the less installation required, the better. I am not using any Perl modules, so this shouldn't be a concern, although I've been considering using the Perl DBI module for generic database support. I have not yet found a DBI equivalent for PHP. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Richard -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
