Re: perl/php args

2001-10-24 Thread Etienne Marcotte
Seriously it's really easy to script with DBI But anyways that's not the purpose of the thread. What is exactly returned by php? a string? what does it looks like? Etienne Tyler Cruickshank wrote: > Thanks all. Well, this is a personal project that Im working on w/ a buddy. He's a >php guy

Re: perl/php args

2001-10-24 Thread Tyler Cruickshank
Thanks all. Well, this is a personal project that Im working on w/ a buddy. He's a php guy while I do perl (to some extent anyhow!). He just wanted to do it in phpand I havent used the DBI module before. ty >>> "Etienne Marcotte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/24/01 12:36PM >>> Maybe, but if al

Re: perl/php args

2001-10-24 Thread Etienne Marcotte
Maybe, but if all the rest of the script is done in perl, I'm not sure if you keep the optimisation of using php to query the DB.. DBI and Perl all in the same script might be something to consider.. Except if there are already 4397825 hours of coding done in the php scripting :-) Etienne Jeff

Re: perl/php args

2001-10-24 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Oct 24, Etienne Marcotte said: >Why aren't you pulling the data from the DB with Perl? Probably because PHP is optimized for that sort of interaction. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http:/

Re: perl/php args

2001-10-24 Thread Etienne Marcotte
Why aren't you pulling the data from the DB with Perl? Etienne Tyler Cruickshank wrote: > Sorry if you get this 2x it may not have gone thru the first time. > > Hello. > > Im working on a perl/php/SVG project. PHP interfaces with a DB (to pull out a data >array) and perl does the rest of the