JustinW said:
PHP is a more modern framework, you would probably find your knowledge more future proof if you learnt it.
With Perl 6 coming with a proper OO framework, I'd say they are about equal there.
JustinW said:
I've had problems running CGI on one particular server that ran out of memory- each time a script is called it spawns a new process. I don't think PHP has this problem as it runs as one process that can take many clients.
The only time I've run a webserver out of memory was trying to parse a 80mb XML file for someone, which ended up been a problem with one of the Perl XML modules (since fixed). Had it working fine in the end by parsing the XML myself rather than relying on a third party module.
JustinW said:
Also there is going to be more built in functionality to help you with common tasks in PHP than Perl.
Justin
You realy should look a
CPAN as there seems to be a Perl module for any task you care to mention, and probably quite a few that you wouldn't
dean_e_boy, if you've done some Perl in the past, have a look at the
DBI::MySQL on CPAN as it makes MYSQL access from within Perl a doddle.