I gave up on PHP around 1.8b6 or something like that. However, before mod_perl arrived, I have used Perl to generate PHP code: a minutely cronjob would read th

I gave up on PHP around 1.8b6 or something like that. However, before mod_perl arrived, I have used Perl to generate PHP code: a minutely cronjob would read the database and generate the PHP code with the right pulldown values from the database. It was the best of 2 worlds: a sane programming language and fast (non-CGI) execution.