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();

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is 
$names = array_keys(array_merge($_POST, $_GET));

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$_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. :)

In reply to Re: Re: Perl vs. PHP by jarich
in thread Perl vs. PHP by jerrygarciuh

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