January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
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Setting Up DAMP
This section will help you decide on the language for your DAMP system (the P port), how to install and configure MySQL, and how to further configure Apache to use Perl and PHP.
Choosing a Language
You should probably have some proficiency in at least one of the “P” languages, even if your site is going to run code written by others. The following is a very brief rundown on the individual strengths of these languages.
- PHP
PHP is the only language of the three designed entirely with web programming in mind; it boasts web-page embedability among its core features. It is arguably the best of the three for building very simple database-backed web applications, and may be the fastest to pick up and learn, given its ability to immediately show results in a web browser.
However, it’s very hard to extend, since adding new functionality means recompiling the PHP software itself; it isn’t modular, as Perl and Python are.
- Perl
Perl is a general-purpose programming language that excels at handling text—since any web page is really just a long string of text, Perl has been a natural choice for crafting dynamic web sites for as long as the Web has existed.
Perl is the oldest of the three languages, with a history going all the way back into the 1980s. Without a doubt, it enjoys the most support. Anyone can extend Perl through writing modules (in either Perl or C), and the famous Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN, headquartered at http://www.cpan.org) serves as a globally ...
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