Shouldn't this board be called 'CGI: PERL, PHP, ASP help'?

For as far as I know perl != CGI and are php and asp also CGI languages.

Or am I wrong?

Perl is the language that some CGI scripts are written in. As far as I know, ASP and PHP are comepletely different languages.

Yes but they all come to your browser through the Common Gateway Interface.

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.

And PERL has? You do agree that c programs executed are CGI programmes huh?

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.

Hmm, sounds reasonable :) Maybe you're right.

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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[Edited by sparkfan12 on 11-12-2000 at 06:34 PM]

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.

mjk@atlascgi.com
http://www.atlascgi.com/