[Gllug] More MySQL and scripts

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:14:59AM +0100, Andy wrote:
> If I was you I'd use PHP to do the queries and generate the e-mails.  PHP is
> quite simple to learn and can be run as a shell as a cron task.

I agree about scripts in cronjobs but this is one case where Perl
definitely has the edge over PHP.  The DBI layer is much more advanced
and there's a whole range of modules available that make e-mail
generation and manipulation easy.

I'm not trying to start a PHP v Perl war - I use both.  But this is an
area where Perl is much stronger.

-- 
Bruce

I am now a little wary of bananas.
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