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PHP and Perl in One Script?
gbulmash asks: "Recently, I began working on a graphics project and wanted to use ImageMagick. As a PHP coder, I figured I'd use MagickWand for PHP. But after some investigation, I decided that an alpha at 0.1.8 with sparse documentation just wasn't going to be good enough for production use. I decided that PerlMagick would be a much better API, but I didn't want to code the whole project in Perl. In the end, I found a cool package for embedding Perl code in PHP scripts (with an article on its use) and it went to a 1.0.0 release, earlier this year. I think I've found my answer, but before I make a final decision and go ahead with it, I thought I'd ask the knowledgeable Slashdot crowd: Is there a better way of interfacing Perl with PHP so you can get the best of both worlds?"
So you've got Perl in your PHP, is there a way to do PHP in your Perl?
I can't see any possibility of flamewars in this subject.
All the security of PHP and all the readability of Perl? It's a surefire win. I wonder why the whole world hasn't caught on to this one yet?
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
> To be fair, they were plenty responsive the one time I asked for anything.
That's enough about butt-sex, plz stay on topic in future.
Ahhh, nothing like a good flamewar! OK, I'll bite. Tell me, please, how do you write multidimensional arrays in Perl? No, no, you are *not* allowed to use references! Or what about a multidimensional hash? Suppose I wanted to migrate from PHP to Perl, how would I translate this perfectly valid PHP code to Perl:
$x["a"]["b"]["c"] = "d";
I mean, can you do it the Perl way, with less keystrokes?
I'm probably going to get flamed for this but have you considered using rails? Seriously, you just spend a couple of hours installing it on your development box before you discover the speed and power of rails. Then when you've used the programming equivilent of a lumphammer to sculpt your fine detailed script, you get to spend the next week looking for hosting. I do all my development on a gentoo box, it only took me a weekend to set up from stage 1. I have some great USE flags that make my RAILS development go super fast and gentoo only takes about 1.5 hours a week to maintain. Well, sometimes it takes a little longer because the QA is non-existent of late.
That's what I'd do anyway, RoR running on gentoo with some kicking USE flags. I'm developing a complete Ajax OS in my spare time using this system. It's going to revolutionize the OS market and yes, it will have use flags.
I am in no way an expert of programming nor web... ...but from my surfing experience, it seems like html + PHP creates very fast websides.
(And PHP can do funky things like change colours on events like mouseover etc? groovy! )
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Come now, you sound like every other expert PHP programmer to me.
Thank you
A. T. Roll
"Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
Congratulations! You found the worst of both worlds.
"Pearl and PHP DNA... just don't mix"
<? bighair() { ?>
Shot through the code,
and you're too lame.
You give PHP
a bad name.
<? } ?>
-Billco, Fnarg.com
http://blog.sykosopp.com/2006/02/26/one-file-to-ru le-them-all/
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Embed all your languages, this file can be interpreted or compiled in 7 different coding languages:
$ php poly.sh.pl.php.tcl.cpp.bf.py.c.lhs.txt
#I'm a PHP script
$ python poly.sh.pl.php.tcl.cpp.bf.py.c.lhs.txt
I'm a Python program.
$ perl poly.sh.pl.php.tcl.cpp.bf.py.c.lhs.txt
I'm a Perl program.
$ tclsh poly.sh.pl.php.tcl.cpp.bf.py.c.lhs.txt
I'm a tcl script.
$ sh poly.sh.pl.php.tcl.cpp.bf.py.c.lhs.txt
I'm a sh script.
Rename file to compile in C/C++:
$ gcc p.c -o c;./c
I'm a C program (C89 with
$ g++ p.c -o cp;./cp
I'm a C++ program, trigraphs disabled.
Hallvar Helleseth (hallvar)