RE: [PHP] Best external app from php

2004-06-29 Thread Michael Sims
C.F. Scheidecker Antunes wrote: > Hello all, > > I need to have a web application to call an external app that needs to > execute on the background. (It is an *NIX server) [...] > My question is this: > > Is it better to write the external app in PHP or Java? Assuming that you (or the developer(s)

[PHP] Best external app from php

2004-06-29 Thread C.F. Scheidecker Antunes
Hello all, I need to have a web application to call an external app that needs to execute on the background. (It is an *NIX server) The app that is being called will do a lenghty work but will be called by a php script through the web server. An user will log in, request a computation, the scrip