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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