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What's the reason behind not using PHP?

• mokkol 13y ago
  You need PHP installed and configured on your server/local. With this you can just use plain HTML.
  • kurrent 13y ago
    and by plain HTML, you mean plain Python installed and configured on your server/local
    • mokkol 13y ago
      The server doesnt need to have Python installed. Just your local machine. That is a simple one liner if it isnt already installed.
  • icebraining 13y ago
    In theory you could also use PHP as a pre-processor; install it locally, copy the sources to the webserver root, then use wget --mirror to extract a post-processed version of the site. You'd still need PHP installed on your home machine, but then again, it's not like you don't have to install some pre-processor anyway.
    • cowsandmilk 13y ago
      > use wget --mirror to extract a post-processed version of the site. or just use php file.php > file.html
      • icebraining 13y ago
        Sure, but you'd need to process each file, or write a script to do it, when wget --mirror fetches the whole site at once.
• oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
  Security: if you're mega-paranoid or unwilling to keep up with patches, going static reduces your attack vector. Performance: your web server will be able to handle more traffic without the overhead of php. Of course, if you need any kind of dynamic processing on the server, you'll need to move beyond static pages.
  • newaccountfool 13y ago
    Ah ok, yeah now I totally understand :) Thought it was the whole 'Does any one even use PHP' getting thrown around again.