Supercomputer Applications
Working with PHP and Perl
PHP Resources
PHP is a new addition to HTML that allows a web designer to create
interactive and dynamic web pages easily. It interfaces nicely with
a database application, MySQL, that is also available on our web
server. To use MySQL, though will need to get a special database
account.
Perl Resources
Perl is a powerful language that is often used in writing scripts that help
handle functions on UNIX systems, and it has also been used for writing
interactive programs on the web. Unlike PHP, Perl programs that run
on the web must be placed in a special directory called cgi-bin
that is under the web-docs directory. Perl is probably still the
most commonly used language for writing CGI-scripts, but because languages
like PHP are easier to use, it may not be the language of choice in years
to come.