On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 18:27, Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) wrote: > Also excuse my limited ignorant knowledge about PHP, but > my impression about PHP is that it is runs as an instance > of the web server or something? (Please, correct me if I > made any fundamental mistake here!)
Yes and no. It can be run both as a SAPI module (running in Apache, IIS, Netscape or another web server) or as a stand-alone process in what is called CGI and CLI modes. There is even wrappers for writing Gtk+ applications with PHP using these modes (the wrapper is called PHP-GTK I think). I would say PHP is just as "all-round" as Perl actually, and I have personally switched from Perl to PHP completely because I prefer PHP's more "C-like" syntax. Maybe you should Read The Fine Manual, Anders? :-) > On the other hand I can imagine an performance difference > on doing this with C/C++, which would be my natural choose > when writing a cmd line parser. But then again, doing the parser would be a much more time-consuming process. And even worse, we're on the wrong mailing list for that... :) -- Best regards, Per Lundberg / Capio ApS Phone: +46-18-4186040 Fax: +46-18-4186049 Web: http://www.capio.com -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
