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MT is not a hybrid Perl/PHP product. You can run MT just fine without having PHP installed. The PHP stuff is, AFAICT, another way to write MT plugins.
by autarch 17y ago
MT is not a hybrid Perl/PHP product. You can run MT just fine without having PHP installed.
The PHP stuff is, AFAICT, another way to write MT plugins.
- jonknee 17y agoIt's more than plugins, PHP is used to get around the ugly rebuilding process. PHP is required for "dynamic publishing".
- james2vegas 17y agoAnd dynamic publishing is what drives wordpress powered blogs into the ground when hit by the Digg effect. I hope the Melody project will better enable the use of CGI::Application or others for dynamic publishing instead of PHP There are already extensions for that, e.g. http://oss.iteman.jp/wiki/2/A_Perl_based_dynamic_publishing_extension_for_Moveble_Type http://oss.iteman.jp/wiki/2/A_Perl_based_dynamic_publishing_...
- rgrieselhuber 17y agoThere are easy ways around this with cache plugins. The MT approach was always just too painful to work with.
- james2vegas 17y agoAnd there are other ways to 'get around' the ugly rebuilding process which do not include making your site as digg allergic as wordpress.