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PHP and Perl in One Script?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the two-great-tastes dept.

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?

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  1. It's like peanut butter and chocolate... by heinousjay · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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    1. Re:It's like peanut butter and chocolate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dude #1: You got your Perl in my PHP!
      Dude #2: You got your PHP in my Perl!

      Announcer: Two great languages that only taste a little bit funny together. Now with less whitespace!!!

      Oh yeah, kids. Don't forget to try our other product, "Mac & PC". It's the cheesiest!

  2. Ruby on Rails by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Dear Slashdot, by edremy · · Score: 4, Funny
    I am trying to write a question that will get the maximum number of snarky replies. Taco didn't post my "Advice for converting a Ruby on Rails application to ASP.NET?" submission, so do you have another suggestion?

    Thank you
    A. T. Roll

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