in reply to PHP vs. Perl for the 10,000th time

PHP provides a clean separation from the code and the presentation (via the template mechianism)

Is PHP only for HTML? Or can it generate WML, printable pages or PDF pages from the same content? Apache::PageKit can do so.

And how good is it at language localization?

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Re: Re: PHP vs. Perl for the 10,000th time
by synapse0 (Pilgrim) on Jul 28, 2001 at 01:37 UTC
    Seperation of code and presentation is just as clean as in perl, I'm really not sure why people bring that up as a point for PHP... Templates slow things down, and I think Perl actually has the advantage when using templates (because of it's innate ability for text manipulation and regex). PHP can generate PDF, I'm pretty sure it can do WML, as well as some other page types. It also has the ability for graphics manipulation...
    Language localization?
    -Syn0
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