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Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other

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Ben Morrow wrote:

> Quoth Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid>:
>> [x-posted to clp.misc]
> [...]
>> 
>> This article has me convinced that I want perl and php able to deal with
>> each other:
>> 
>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9282?page=0,1
> 
> Why on Earth would you want to do that? Seriously, I can't think of any
> situation where mixing PHP and Perl is easier than just writing in Perl
> in the first place.

Other people would say the same about writing PHP instead of a mix.  

However, there can be value in two programming languages in the same 
program.  Just consider what kinds of data you can pass via the command
line and what kinds you cannot pass that way (yes, there are text files,
named pipes, and other equally ugly workarounds).
 
> Note that the Perl in that article (or at least, the first page, which
> was all I read) is pretty bad:
> 
> […]
>     - using PHP to talk to a database, when Perl's DBI module is
>       considerably better than PHP's rather random database functions.
> 
> I don't know PHP well enough to comment on it,

Yet you did, which shows that you have never used PHP Data Objects (PDO).  
“*Random* database functions”?  IBTD.

> but I wouldn't be surprised if the PHP code was just as bad (for instance,
> I understand PHP has a saner database interface these days; I don't know
> if it existed in 2007, though).
 
It did; for example, “PDO [shipped] with PHP 5.1”, “[r]eleased: 24 Nov 
2005”, which is not that hard to find out:

<http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pdo.php>
<http://www.php.net/releases/>


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randomly sorting files in php Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-02-28 17:49 -0800
  Re: randomly sorting files in php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-02-28 23:45 -0500
    Re: randomly sorting files in php Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-02-28 22:23 -0800
      Re: randomly sorting files in php David Robley <me@home.invalid> - 2013-03-01 17:24 +1030
        Re: randomly sorting files in php Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-03 18:59 -0800
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            Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other,  was Re: randomly sorting   files in php "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-03-05 19:43 +0100
              Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other,  was Re: randomly sorting   files in php The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-05 19:20 +0000
            Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-03-05 22:06 +0000
              Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-06 00:20 +0100
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-03-05 23:59 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-06 01:01 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-05 20:08 -0500
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-06 22:37 -0800
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-03-07 06:57 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-07 00:52 -0800
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-07 08:17 -0500
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 03:41 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-14 11:14 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-14 08:06 -0400
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jürgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-14 04:18 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2013-03-14 05:38 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-03-07 14:25 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-07 08:14 -0500
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-06 02:08 +0100
              Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-06 22:53 -0800
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-03-07 09:46 +0100
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other David Robley <me@home.invalid> - 2013-03-07 21:43 +1030
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-03-07 07:32 -0600
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other SwissCheese <swisscheese@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-03-07 06:28 -0500
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-03-07 14:33 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 02:16 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 03:28 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other SwissCheese <swisscheese@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-03-14 06:51 -0400
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-18 12:54 +0100
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other SwissCheese <swisscheese@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-03-18 20:23 -0400
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other alexd <troffasky@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-07 19:09 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Henry Law <news@lawshouse.org> - 2013-03-07 20:09 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 02:23 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-07 20:43 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Alastair Black <abqab.nemo@example.net> - 2013-03-07 14:47 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-03-07 23:11 +0100
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Alastair Black <abqab.nemo@example.net> - 2013-03-07 15:50 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-07 19:45 -0500
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 02:19 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-14 07:55 -0400
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  Re: randomly sorting files in php Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-04 02:45 -0800
    Re: randomly sorting files in php Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 03:39 -0700

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