Apa beza perl dgn php ?

myravens · #1 (**permalink**) 15-08-2003, 04:35 PM

ello kengkawan....

nak tanye sket ape beza antara php dengan perl...

Aku ni baru je nak start belajar php.....

Sesape yg tahu tu tolong ajar aku please......

DingDang · #2 (**permalink**) 17-08-2003, 01:26 AM

perl is : a universal programming language.
php is : a web programming language.

you can use perl to program anything. just like C, Visual Basic and Pascal. You can combine perl with cgi for web programming.

you can use php for web programming ONLY, even though they are working very hard now to make it available for standalone program. but still, php is still a web programming language. hence the name - Personal Home Page

go and learn perl if you have some programming knowledge before, and would like to xpend the knowledge in web programming without loosing your senses.

go and learn php if you don't know anything about programming, and you want to build a dynamic website or web application.

good luck!

ardiles · #3 (**permalink**) 17-08-2003, 02:37 AM

eh... ye ke PHP tu Personal Home Page?

bukan P: Hypertext Preprocessor ke...?

sufyan · #4 (**permalink**) 17-08-2003, 07:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ardiles
eh... ye ke PHP tu Personal Home Page?

bukan P: Hypertext Preprocessor ke...?

Yep...

PERL stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language and
PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor

sufyan · #5 (**permalink**) 17-08-2003, 07:33 AM

To keep it simple, just look at it this way:

The main difference is that PHP allows direct embedding into HTML whereas PERL doesn't.

So in PHP, you could do:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<? $querystring = $_GET ?>
Everything after the question mark: <? echo $querystring ?>
</body>
</html>

Whereas is perl, you would have to use:
print "<html>\n";
print "<head>\n";
print "<title>Title</title>\n";
print "</head>\n";
print "<body>\n";
$querystring = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
print "Everything after the question mark: $querystring\n";
print "</body>\n";
print "</html>";

DingDang · #6 (**permalink**) 17-08-2003, 09:54 AM

the original PHP stands for Personal Home Page (it was PHP/FI), later it was named plain 'PHP', with the meaning being a recursive acronym - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.

It was written in the manual (http://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php)

Perl DOES support HTML embedding by using PerlEX from ActivePerl, and many other modules, packages and interpreter that support embedded perl.

using CGI.pm, you can reprogram the perl code given by sufyan to look like this :

Code:

#!/perl

use CGI;
$query = new CGI;

$querystring = $query -> query_string;

print header(); 
print start_html(-title=>"Title");
print qq~Everything after the question mark: $querystring~;
print end_html;

thats it!

as i said before, the code REALLY make sense if you have learn any programming language before because (imho)

1) you know what the code is really doing, from top to bottom, by using your sense on programming language.

2) you know that $query is an object inherited from the CGI module.

3) it can be well structured. process all the input first and print out the result in HTML. so you can see clearly what and where.

4) it works like an ordinary programming language. so, by learning Perl, you will still maintain your programming knowledge, the flow, the rules, and the grammar of programming language.

whereas if you don't care any of the above, PHP is suitable for you.

myravens · #7 (**permalink**) 17-08-2003, 01:43 PM

thanks for your help........

hymns · #8 (**permalink**) 16-09-2003, 05:35 PM

you can use php language for stand alone programming but it'z need some module for supporting it. I use php for Office Software such as Control Stock, Attendend, Reporting not run as WEB

sufyan · #9 (**permalink**) 16-09-2003, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by hymns
you can use php language for stand alone programming but it'z need some module for supporting it. I use php for Office Software such as Control Stock, Attendend, Reporting not run as WEB

Interesting... could you elaborate on that. Never knew you could make stand alone apps with PHP. What modules are you talking about?

hymns · #10 (**permalink**) 16-09-2003, 07:32 PM

Sufyan: gimp tool kitz
you also can use other tools to create GUI. i'm using blade for create the GUI. Perl also can use it. support language ADA, PHP, C, C++... erk i think this a wrong place for talking about php =)

sufyan · #11 (**permalink**) 16-09-2003, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by hymns
Sufyan: gimp tool kitz
you also can use other tools to create GUI. i'm using blade for create the GUI. Perl also can use it. support language ADA, PHP, C, C++... erk i think this a wrong place for talking about php =)

Thanks for that, i'll look into it

hymns · #12 (**permalink**) 16-09-2003, 07:46 PM

it'z ok!~ you can create ur own game or other application. Enjoy it!

genzy · #13 (**permalink**) 05-04-2007, 05:11 AM

Perl is general purpose.

It is very good in text/string manipulation, famous for its regular expression/pattern matching.

It is widely used in OS system/engineering/manufacturing/bio-medical world.

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