Re: FN-FORUM: Suggestions please charset="Windows-1250"

date posted 30th January 2006 21:53

On Monday 30 Jan 2006 8:47 pm, Matt Mitchell wrote:

> It is, but much as I love PHP, Perl has the edge on native code extensi=
ons,
> which can also be built using CPAN - much like adding gd support after
> installing perl. How easy is that in PHP?

Don't know - I can always ask the guy that wrote the Muscat functions! [1=
]=20
But we're moving on to different ground - the point I was making is that=20
not only can you use PHP as a general purpose scripting language, it's=20
surprisingly effective as one. I'm certainly not claiming that it's=20
better at that job than Perl.


[1] http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.muscat.php