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A CGI script to cat the posts together sounds like the better option. Wasn't this the sort of thing that PHP was literally invented to do? Upon saying that, I
by toomanybeersies 10y ago
A CGI script to cat the posts together sounds like the better option.
Wasn't this the sort of thing that PHP was literally invented to do? Upon saying that, I have no idea what the state of PHP was in 1999.
- peterwwillis 10y agoNah, it was too CPU intense. In addition, even though disks haven't gotten significantly faster since then, filesystems were a lot less advanced, and disk, virtual memory and CPU caches were much smaller. PHP did develop quickly in order to optimize the performance of serving scripted web content. Besides its own performance enhancements it also relied heavily on database storage for content, which significantly improved performance for complex websites. But it was mostly useless to people with just a homepage and guestbook; most web hosters would not provide database access without charging, and most web devs needed a higher level of technical competency to use them. A lot of websites were run by people who only knew front-end programming and markup languages.
- sharkjacobs 10y ago> most web hosters would not provide database access without charging > most web devs needed a higher level of technical competency > websites were run by people who only knew front-end programming and markup languages That was exactly my situation
- MustardTiger 10y agoYes, PHP had already largely supplanted perl cgi scripts by 1999.