Re: Perl vs. PHP

One of the biggest (albeit certainly not the only) thing I prefer about Perl to PHP for web programming is the Template Toolkit. It may just be my lack of through knowledge of PHP, but I am not aware of anything that measures up to the Template Toolkit in PHP.

I am a University student, and have been working the past few months on a research project for one of the professors, writing an eCommerce application in PHP. The way in which I feel compelled to write the code makes me cringe. If the project weren't as developed as it is, or I was going to be involved for much longer, I would certainly campaign to redo it in Perl.

Afterthought: One other thing that has bugged me on this project: I haven't been able to figure out how to inform a PHP script what CGI variables were passed to it. After a bit of reading, I found that Perl's CGI module makes this as easy as @names = $cgi_obj->param.

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Re: Re: Perl vs. PHP by jarich (Curate) on May 21, 2002 at 07:13 UTC
Afterthought: One other thing that has bugged me on this project: I haven't been able to figure out how to inform a PHP script what CGI variables were passed to it. After a bit of reading, I found that Perl's CGI module makes this as easy as @names = $cgi_obj->param. You want to be looking here for that information. PHP distinguishes between GET and POSTed variables. So the PHP equivalent for `@names = $cgi_obj->param();` [download] is `$names = array_keys(array_merge($_POST, $_GET));` [download] $_POST are all the POSTed keys and values. $_GET is the same for variables passed on the GET string. Hope this helps. jarich disclaimer:I don't really like PHP anymore. The DB stuff drove me nuts. Try porting from mysql to postgresql or such. Change the syntax for all the functions, change the order for some of them... argh! Nevertheless, sometimes you have to use it, and it can do almost everything you want it to... if you look hard enough. :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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by jarich (Curate) on May 21, 2002 at 07:13 UTC

Afterthought: One other thing that has bugged me on this project: I haven't been able to figure out how to inform a PHP script what CGI variables were passed to it. After a bit of reading, I found that Perl's CGI module makes this as easy as @names = $cgi_obj->param.

You want to be looking here for that information. PHP distinguishes between GET and POSTed variables. So the PHP equivalent for

@names = $cgi_obj->param();
[download]

$names = array_keys(array_merge($_POST, $_GET));
[download]

Hope this helps.

jarich

disclaimer:I don't really like PHP anymore. The DB stuff drove me nuts. Try porting from mysql to postgresql or such. Change the syntax for all the functions, change the order for some of them... argh! Nevertheless, sometimes you have to use it, and it can do almost everything you want it to... if you look hard enough. :)

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