Some folks I respect are enthusiastic about PHP. I wrote the same toy script in both perl and PHP. So far I'm not sharing the love. Maybe it is because I've only got two hours experience with PHP?

Comments? I know there is at least one monk with a php site. 

#!/usr/bin/php4

<?php
dl("pgsql.so"); //kludge will be configured in 
                // global php.ini soon

$word=$HTTP_POST_VARS['word'];

# no password needed as we are using suexec 
# and ident server locally
$conn=pg_pconnect("user=mandog dbname=mandog");

if (!$conn) {
        print "bad databae connection!";
        exit;
}

$query="INSERT INTO hello VALUES ('$word');";
$result=pg_exec($conn,$query);

$query="SELECT word,to_char(when_hello,'Month DD HH24:MI:SS') FROM hel
+lo;";
$result=pg_exec($conn,$query);
if (!$result) {
    print "An error occured.\n";
    exit;
}

$num = pg_numrows($result);
print "<PRE>";
print "words of the moment\n";
for ($i=0; $i < $num; $i++) {
    $r = pg_fetch_row($result, $i);
    print "on: $r[1] the word was: \t$r[0]\n";
}
print "</PRE>"
?>

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;
use CGI;
use DBI;

my $cgi=new CGI;
print $cgi->header();

my $word=$cgi->param('word') || 'nothing entered for perl';

# RaiseError instead of manually dying
# no password needed as we are using suexec and ident server locally
my $dbh=DBI->connect('dbi:Pg:dbname=felicia','felicia', "",{ RaiseErro
+r => 1});

my $query="INSERT INTO hello VALUES (?);";
my $sth=$dbh->prepare($query);
$sth->execute($word);

$query=$query="SELECT word,to_char(when_hello,'Month DD HH24:MI:SS') F
+ROM hello;";
$sth=$dbh->prepare($query);
$sth->execute();

print '<PRE>';
while (my @r=$sth->fetchrow_array()){
    print "on: $r[1] the word was: \t$r[0]\n";
}
print '</PRE>';

$dbh->disconnect();

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