Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-09 Thread Rafał Pocztarski
2009/12/6 Parag Kalra : > I have only interacted with PHP/MySQL to design a website. > > I wanted to know if it is possible to use Perl instead of PHP (and I am > pretty sure it should be possible :) ). But my main concern is what are the > main Pros & Cons of using Perl instead of PHP. Hi, While

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Scott Pham wrote: > Parag Kalra wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I have only interacted with PHP/MySQL to design a website. >> >> I wanted to know if it is possible to use Perl instead of PHP (and I am >> pretty sure it should be possible :) ). But my main concern is what >> are the >> main Pros & Cons o

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-07 Thread Scott Pham
Parag Kalra wrote: Hello All, I have only interacted with PHP/MySQL to design a website. I wanted to know if it is possible to use Perl instead of PHP (and I am pretty sure it should be possible :) ). But my main concern is what are the main Pros & Cons of using Perl instead of PHP. I have ver

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-06 Thread Octavian Râşniţă
From: "Parag Kalra" Hello All, I have only interacted with PHP/MySQL to design a website. I wanted to know if it is possible to use Perl instead of PHP (and I am pretty sure it should be possible :) ). But my main concern is what are the main Pros & Cons of using Perl instead of PHP. Perl

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-06 Thread Philip Potter
2009/12/6 Parag Kalra : >> Question to the OP: Why have you decided to try things out in Perl? If >> it is because you've heard something like "Perl is better than PHP" >> then stop and try to find out *why* and *in what situations* is Perl >> better than PHP. In the situation of a simple webpage w

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 06 Dec 2009 11:41:01 Parag Kalra wrote: > > Question to the OP: Why have you decided to try things out in Perl? If > > it is because you've heard something like "Perl is better than PHP" > > then stop and try to find out *why* and *in what situations* is Perl > > better than PHP. In the s

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-06 Thread Parag Kalra
> > Question to the OP: Why have you decided to try things out in Perl? If > it is because you've heard something like "Perl is better than PHP" > then stop and try to find out *why* and *in what situations* is Perl > better than PHP. In the situation of a simple webpage with a simple DB > lookup h

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-06 Thread Alan Haggai Alavi
Hi, There are many ways by which a website/application can be built using Perl. Mainly: * CGI * mod_perl * Any web framework All of the above have modules in CPAN. For simple tasks and for websites with not much traffic, you can go the CGI way. For much more complex tasks, you have the choice

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-06 Thread Philip Potter
2009/12/6 Erez Schatz : > This being said, anything you can do in PHP is available in Perl, PHP > being the "less talented brother" of Perl and all. For instance, for > embedding code tags in your HTML page, look no further than some > awsome and powerful Perl modules such as Template::Toolkit > (w

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-05 Thread Erez Schatz
2009/12/6 Jeff Pang : > Parag Kalra: > >> >> So what are the main Perl modules which I need to install and any good >> tutorial link would be really appreciated. >> > > For the modules, CGI and DBI is mostly what you wanted, these two modules > are built-in ones in recent perl release. I seriously

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-05 Thread Jeff Pang
Parag Kalra: So what are the main Perl modules which I need to install and any good tutorial link would be really appreciated. For the modules, CGI and DBI is mostly what you wanted, these two modules are built-in ones in recent perl release. For documents see "perldoc CGI" and "perldoc D

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-05 Thread Robert Wohlfarth
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Parag Kalra wrote: > I have only interacted with PHP/MySQL to design a website. > > I wanted to know if it is possible to use Perl instead of PHP (and I am > pretty sure it should be possible :) ). But my main concern is what are the > main Pros & Cons of using Pe

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-05 Thread Erez Schatz
2009/12/6 Jigme Datse Rasku : > I believe if you want to do things "much the way PHP does," probably unless > you have a significant reason to *not* use PHP (either you see another tool > as "better" or you see PHP as lacking in some respect, I don't see a reason > not to use PHP. First, if you kn

Re: Can I design a website using Perl

2009-12-05 Thread Jigme Datse Rasku
I believe if you want to do things "much the way PHP does," probably unless you have a significant reason to *not* use PHP (either you see another tool as "better" or you see PHP as lacking in some respect, I don't see a reason not to use PHP. My understanding of writing a website in Perl is that