On 04/25/2012 02:54 PM, Matthew K wrote:
Mark,
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From: Mark Haney<ma...@abemblem.com>
To: Perl Beginners<beginners@perl.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:51 AM
Subject: PERL CGI, HTML and PHP
I've got, what I hope is a fairly simple problem that someone can point me
to the best (or best practices anyway) way to handle it.
You can hack together a working solution, but if you want the best practice
way, then you should use only one server side scripting language. If you want
the cleanest, most readable, most maintainable code then you really want to
minimize the languages you use and keep everything simple. If you want to do
this then you have two options.
1) Figure out how to do what you need in Perl (Not sure what this additional
"feature set" you need is, but figuring out this in perl might be the easiest
solution)
2) Refactor your perl code into php
Well, that's exactly what I've seen when googling this issue. I really,
really, (uh, really) don't want to unless absolutely necessary.
As for the feature set I mentioned, I've been running into limitations
with using perl to populate dropdown boxes dynamically and such.
Granted, I'm sure there's a nice neat way to do it, but I couldn't find
anything on the interwebs to show me how, and since I know how to do it
in PHP, it made sense to combine the two.
I understand the desire to 'keep with one scripting language', but what
I don't understand is why take a stand like that, yet continue to use
javascript with PHP and ASP pages. Seems to me, that in the right
instance combining the two can be very powerful. Personally, I've found
the flexibility in report manipulation of perl to be better than
anything else I've used, so I plan on keeping it for reports and using
PHP for the front end/UI stuff.
FWIW, I've never seen an entire website built completely in perl.
Doesn't mean there aren't any, but they must be very few and far
between. (No offense to the perl crowd, just an observation.)
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Mark Haney
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AB Emblem
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