I have been out of the website creation business for a few years. I have recently gotten back into it and I am hearing a lot about PHP. Based on my limited research, it sounds a little like PERL. If this is true, what are the benefits of PHP over PERL. I am more familiar with PERL than PHP, but would it be worth my time to explore PHP and discard PERL?

Thanks

Personally, I find PHP to be much easier to use than Perl, as it was created especially for the web. Perl does have some very powerful parsing features that are shared with PHP (for example its regular expression features), and some syntactical similarities, but I don't find the two to be that similar. However, I'm much more familiar with PHP than I am with Perl.

PHP is nice, because you can include its code right along-side regular HTML, which you can't do in the same way with Perl. You can also use if() else(), while(), for() etc structures in reference to regular chunks of HTML, simply by breaking from PHP without immediately closing the statement, like this:

PHP Code:

<?php if($loggedin) { ?>
<h1>Welcome!</h1>
<?php } ?>

I found an interesting link that compares the two languages: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/phpvscgi.shtml

Thanks for the input, very informative

If your familiar with Perl and use it in other areas besides web development, then you may want to stick with it. Of course, if you know Perl, PHP won't be that hard to pick up.

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