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Zef Hemel
November 12th, 2000, 13:21
For as far as I know perl != CGI and are php and asp also CGI languages.

Or am I wrong?
Nick
November 12th, 2000, 13:34
Perl is the language that some CGI scripts are written in. As far as I know, ASP and PHP are comepletely different languages.
Zef Hemel
November 12th, 2000, 14:00
Yes but they all come to your browser through the Common Gateway Interface.
Koolguy
November 12th, 2000, 14:02
Correct me if im wrong but php and asp have nothing to do with cgi in any shape or form, besides being a server side language.
Zef Hemel
November 12th, 2000, 14:05
And PERL has? You do agree that c programs executed are CGI programmes huh?
KapTinKiRk
November 12th, 2000, 14:15
From what I know, CGI scripts can be written in C, C++, Perl, and some other languages. But ASP, PHP, ColdFusion etc. are a totally different thing. It's like saying HTML is CGI too, well, not really, but whatever.
Zef Hemel
November 12th, 2000, 14:22
Hmm, sounds reasonable :) Maybe you're right.
sparkfan12
November 12th, 2000, 18:32
Hi, I was reading these forums, and thought I would reply.

theyre totally seperate things. CGI is Common Gateway Interface, PHP is Professional Home Pages, and ASP is Active Server Pages. Now they don't sound alike, do they? I can install PHP and a web server on my machine and have a host with PHP. I don't need Perl to be installed. Trust me, they're not the same thing...


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atlas
November 12th, 2000, 18:57
Originally posted by sparkfan12
Hi, I was reading these forums, and thought I would reply.

theyre totally seperate things. CGI is Common Gateway Interface, PHP is Professional Home Pages, and ASP is Active Server Pages. Now they don't sound alike, do they? I can install PHP and a web server on my machine and have a host with PHP. I don't need Perl to be installed. Trust me, they're not the same thing...


I thought I'd reply since you have some innaccurate information. CGI does indeed stand for Common Gateway Interface -- it includes Perl, C++, C or any program that needs to be run on the server as a separate process and then the input exported to the browser. PHP, which incidently stands for Personal Home Page (not Professional Home Pages), and ASP are preprocessers -- not CGI.

The forum name is correct.

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