Harald,

Presumably you are pushing Perl, but if you *want* to do web programming, then there's no compelling reason why you would want to use Perl over PHP4.

PHP4 has some features that lend itself particularly to the job that it's solving, is reportedly less resource hungry and more efficient than perl, and has several components, some provided for free, that will speed it up considerably over perl and previous versions of PHP.

Also, PHP is perfectly up to the task of solving many problems that one might write in perl or some other language. To include some vague MySQL relevance in what is after all a MySQL group and not a PHP forum!, last sunday I wanted to test out MySQL's feasibility for a document search engine, so I knocked together the DB schemas and wrote the text indexing program in PHP for the hell of it. It was pretty quick, and did the job just fine. I could have written it in perl, C++, Java, ..., but for what I wanted, PHP did the job just as well as any of them.

And the not suprising conclusion btw., was that MySQL kicked ass! Although only on 10,000 documents, and around 4 million indexed words, but it was very quick.

Nick

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