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On 22 June 2010 12:35, Martijn Grooten <sweetwatergeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Simon Waters wrote: >> I think PHP sucks in comparison to Perl. >> >> In what way do you think PHP is more user friendly? > > In that you can write a working web page in HTML and then add a few > PHP bits to make it more dynamic. True. It is very simple to get started. > You can't do that with Perl, or at > least not easily. (I should have said "PHP is more friendly to users > who maintain the website of the local tennis club in their spare > time".) Not quite - HTML::Mason will allow you to do the same, but with Perl, along with embperl. I wouldn't use PHP directly for a simple website tho, even as a beginner - about 100% of what you need for most sites that a newbie would code in PHP is available as a simple to install application for free or under 100 quid. Perch, Orbis and many other PHP CMS applications handle the low end of content management - once you're beyond that then your newbie PHP skills won't go very far anyway, and you're either looking at a framework like Joomla, Drupal, Django, Rails or Catalyst to build your web application with or you're customising a heavyweight CMS like Bricolage. Cheers A. -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html