On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Mark Linvill wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Daniel Stolk wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm needing to access my PostgreSQL database from the web, or actually
> >the customers need to. I was originally using C with the libpq library,
> >but I was wondering if there are some programs out there that would make
> >it easier and faster for me to set things up? If there aren't, what
> >kind of interface would be best to use? I was looking at PHP, but I'm
> >not sure it will be as powerful as C, but maybe it is powerful enough.
> >
>
> IMHO, PHP is plenty powerful enough. Development time is
> fabulously quick. The only possible issue might be execution speed.
> Not that PHP is slow, but it can't beat a C CGI.
Actually, if you load PHP "as recommended", which is as an Apache module
vs using it as a CGI, it is faster then a straight C CGI ... my
preference, personally, remains using Perl CGIs (more flexible then Perl,
faster development time then C, and, if you use mod_perl, about the same
speed of execution as PHP-module)...
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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