Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-12-03 Thread Christopher Murtagh
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 11:08, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Christopher" == Christopher Murtagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christopher> 3) Building templates with embedded code is much > Christopher> easier/more intuitive in PHP than Perl. > > Did you look at Apache::Template and Templa

Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-12-01 Thread Jay O'Connor
At 04:03 PM 12/01/2003 -0500, you wrote: > and I believe the the OOP features available in PHP 5, will easily leapfrog over Perl. As my daddy used to say "twice zero is still a small number" I'm a pretty big OO fan but when I use Perl I don't bother with the OO features once I had looked at th

Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-12-01 Thread scott.marlowe
On 1 Dec 2003, Greg Stark wrote: > > "scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Again, show me an area where PHP is actually deficient here. Something > > Perl or Ruby does better that would pertain to a mailing list. Don't just > > wave your hands around, give us a concrete example o

Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-12-01 Thread Greg Stark
"scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Again, show me an area where PHP is actually deficient here. Something > Perl or Ruby does better that would pertain to a mailing list. Don't just > wave your hands around, give us a concrete example of its short comings. Error handling. The lack

Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-12-01 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:03:02PM -0500, Ericson Smith wrote: > PHP has long ago caught up with Perl, and I believe the the OOP features > available in PHP 5, will easily leapfrog over Perl. Having said that, we > still code a lot of Perl, simply because of inertia and an existing > codebase.

Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-12-01 Thread scott.marlowe
On 1 Dec 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "scott" == scott marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > scott> This is simply not true. PHP comes in both a web ready > scott> embedded version, as well as a CLI version, and is quite > scott> capable, even of handling things like streams and suc

Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-12-01 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:42:39PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "scott" == scott marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > scott> This is simply not true. PHP comes in both a web ready > scott> embedded version, as well as a CLI version, and is quite > scott> capable, even of handling t

Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-12-01 Thread scott.marlowe
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29 wrote: > > An ISP I belong to uses Majordomo for their mailing list system. I'd like > > to encourage them to move to a system that uses a database, preferably > > psql which they already run on their server. Anything out there in Php? >

Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-11-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
> > An ISP I belong to uses Majordomo for their mailing list system. I'd like > > to encourage them to move to a system that uses a database, preferably > > psql which they already run on their server. Anything out there in Php? Some possible starting points are mailman and ezmlm-idx. I saw some

Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-11-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Check Majordomo2, which is what we use for the lists ... it has the ability to use database backends now, at least for MySQL, and I know a good portion of code is in place for PostgreSQL also (just not sure to what extent, haven't braved it yet) ... On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Randolf Richardson, DevNe

Re: [GENERAL] Good open source mailing list system PHP / Postgresql

2003-11-19 Thread Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29
> An ISP I belong to uses Majordomo for their mailing list system. I'd like > to encourage them to move to a system that uses a database, preferably > psql which they already run on their server. Anything out there in Php? I doubt there's anything in PHP since PHP is a language purely us