Hi Jeff,
Ease of use, Speed, power, cross platform, speed, power. How's that sound?
:)
Seriously though, in a nutshell, it's easier to code, it executes
lightyears faster than anything else, it comes out of the box with more
database hooks than anything, and is fully cross platform.
Benefits over .ASP? Um, all of the above. .ASP is dog slow, tied to IIS and
MS databases. Sure, you can use ODBC but ODBC is also dog slow and a right
pain in the patootie.
Perl, while a bit more cross platform than .ASP, is also pretty slow. To be
frank, it wasn't built for the web. PHP is, from ground up. Also when it
comes to working with databases, PHP can't be beat.
Check out:
http://www.zend.com/zend/art/intro.php
It's a good introductory article.
Hope this helps! Welcome to the club...
- Erik
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 11:52 AM
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> Subject: [PHP-WIN] PHP vs. PERL; Compatibility issues
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> Being new to PHP, I was wondering what the benefits of PHP are over PERL?
> Seems to me it's easier than PERL, but what else is there? Are there
> benefits over ASP? Is it compatible with Netscape AND IE?
>
> Jeff
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