Re: [SLUG] mailform.cgi needs a little security

[Rick Welykochy <rick@nospam.praxis.com.au>]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> b) I'm going to get flamed to Hades and back for this, but... I find that
> PHP is much better for this sort of stuff than Perl. Perl has its uses, but
> for webby stuff that's not hardcore text processing, why bother?
> 
> Ask Matt about his PHP users group and email list... Actually, I'll do it
> myself.

No flaming, but ...

with mod_perl in your Apache, and HTML::Embperl in your library,
you've got the "scripting inside HTML" like PHP, but with a much more
powerful language, that being perl. As well, you can roll-out
object-oriented solutions using this technique that have components
that run in the shell or other environments. For example, I often
create a web site using perl objects, then re-use the same objects
in shell scripts to do batch processing or various admin tasks.

AFAIK, PHP does not give you the option of integrating its
objects into a shell environment. Only Python and perl
allow this.

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