[Cialug] Quick scripting

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

For me, the advantage of using php, is that it is something I use
everyday, and I have tons of code libraries for all kinds of stuff...


On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:28, David Stout wrote:
> Other than web programming what would be the advantage of using PHP
> over perl?
> 
> Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote: 
>         Sorry for not noticing you saying that earlier. Was on
>         vacation last 
>         week so I haven't dug out of all the email yet.
>         
>         Yeah, I like using PHP particularly at work as I usually
>         hook-up PHPDoc 
>         to produce documentation for the sys admins. I'm sure by know
>         Perl 
>         probably has something similar.
>         
>         --Tony
>         
>         David Champion wrote:
>         > I mentioned earlier in the thread that I'd done a little PHP
>         shell 
>         > scripting, but not much.
>         > 
>         > Ideally it would be nice to make use of common PHP libraries
>         between web 
>         > & cmd line scripts. I usually get lazy and create PHP web
>         pages that I 
>         > then call with a wget or something. Then I don't have to
>         worry about 
>         > having the php cmdline version available...
>         > 
>         > -dc
>         > 
>         > Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
>         > 
>         >> I'm not doing it at the moment, but if I needed to write
>         larger shell
>         >> scripts I would definitely do them in php.
>         >>
>         >>
>         >> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 12:51, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>         >>
>         >>> Am I the only one scripting with PHP? Most on this list
>         probably 
>         >>> know you can do it but I seldom see many PHP shell
>         scripts. I know 
>         >>> one of the issues is that Perl is generally included with
>         most 
>         >>> flavors of *nix but anymore the same seems to be the same
>         with PHP.
>         >>>
>         >>> I'm not meaning to start a flame war on PHP vs Perl, just
>         curious if 
>         >>> others do it.
>         >>>
>         >>> --Tony
>         >>>
>         >>> David Stout wrote:
>         >>>
>         >>>> WOW thank you, I have this web site book marked these are
>         great 
>         >>>> things to know as I take on my new position. I will of
>         course be 
>         >>>> bouncing a few questions off to you guys here and there
>         as the road 
>         >>>> become a little rough.
>         >>>>
>         >>>> Thanks again,
>         >>>>
>         >>>> */Kenneth Ristau /* wrote:
>         >>>>
>         >>>> Josh More wrote:
>         >>>> > I *strongly* recommend the book _Learning Perl_
>         >>>> > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/
>         >>>> >
>         >>>> > Once you've read that one cover to cover and done all
>         the
>         >>>> examples, read
>         >>>> > _Programming Perl_ cover to cover.
>         >>>> > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/
>         >>>>
>         >>>> And once you've digested enough of those two and are
>         looking for a
>         >>>> handy, online reference, check out
>         http://www.perlmonks.org
>         >>>>
>         >>>> later,
>         >>>> kristau
>         >>>> -- Tired programmer
>         >>>> Coding late into the night
>         >>>> The core dump follows
>         >>>>
>         >>>> My GNUPG public key is available at
>         >>>> http://www.kristau.net/public_key.asc
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