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Agreed. Back then you primarily went one of two ways, Perl & PHP. PHP was by far the lowest barrier to development. Easy to enable PHP support in webservers,
by Twirrim 8y ago
Agreed.
Back then you primarily went one of two ways, Perl & PHP. PHP was by far the lowest barrier to development. Easy to enable PHP support in webservers, easy to incrementally increase usage in your platform alongside any static HTML.
PHP + mod_php moved away from needing to know what was happening on the server side.
Perl and the other cgi-bin integrations could be complicated, involved, requiring more specific configuration on the server side. Sure, it's not _that_ hard to do, but it does present a barrier to entry that PHP / mod_php handily solved.
- pjmlp 8y agoBy 1999, Zope, C CGIs, TCL (AOLServer), ColdFusion, Delphi HTTP Server, ASP, IIS ISAPI,... More than two possible ways.
- Twirrim 8y agoI'm sorry, I don't see anywhere where I said there were only two ways.
- pjmlp 8y agoThat is what I take from "Back then you primarily went one of two ways, Perl & PHP.". As if everything else wasn't worth mentioning. Back on my little bubble, the options listed by me were much more relevant.