In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My main use is for web development, both online and off.
Me too :-) I think that there are many people like myself, who split off the programming path between BASIC and C or C++, but who now want to do more than pure HTML on websites. I started off with a manually created site displaying someones items for sale. When it got to 80 odd items on 80 odd pages I decided to get Perl and write a script which took a template page and turned it into 80 odd linked pages, from info supplied from a text file. This later turned into an online version, so only 3 files were needed: 1 Perl script, 1 html page template and 1 index text file. Then I looked into PHP, and now all my Perl scripts have been replaced by PHP pages. It seems easier to handle a PHP script (with embedded HTML) in any directory than Perl scripts in the cgi-bin (I know it needn't be this way with other hosts). Now all my web pages are in PHP. I also wrote some conversion routines for work, turning one type of file into another. I'm in the middle of turning those into PHP scripts as well: running them from a web server page rather than batch files is somewhat easier on the end user, especially with the file upload feature. I'm sure Perl can do all this, but PHP just seems easier. -- Steve Bradburn Boring www homepage: www.steve.bradburn.com
