I think one of the reasons that there isn't the same amount of support for PHP as there is for Perl is that it's only relatively recently become popular. The newsgroup alt.php has only just started up and seems to be getting busier by the day; lots of newsservers didn't carry it at first. The online documnetation is excellent, something which I personally think is a lot more useful than Perl's docs, and there are quite a few websites out there that are useful forums for learning about and discussing PHP.

I think that PHP has it's uses and can be used in conjunction with Perl to get stuff done. They both have their advantages and disadvantages, but you can only really make up your own mind on the matter by trying them out. Try doing the same task in PHP and then try again in Perl - sometimes PHP will be best for the job and sometimes Perl will.

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.