Re: PHP or Perl?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Aug 15), Mark Healey said:
> As part of my own learning mysql project I'm planning to build 
> databases for all my books and DVD's.  Stephen Hawking is probably a 
> better typist than I am so I plan to use barcodes to get the info 
> ,taking the information from various web sites.
> 
> People tell me that PHP is THE way to do database work with mysql. 
> The thing is, I'm familiar with Perl and it has all kinds of neat 
> string manipulation stuff and LWP.

The best way is with C, calling the libmysqlclient functions directly, 
of course :)  Once you decide to use an interpreted language, just pick 
the one you're most comfortable with.  PHP is "THE" way for people that 
know PHP.  If you like Perl instead, use Perl.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped