Perl vs. PHP

[RobertX]

I'm writing a message board application for my home network and am trying to find a good programming language to help me do just that.

I am presently trying to find a way to make Perl that language to aid me, but many things are very complicated with Perl.

In my school project, I did a similar thing and I used PHP and that language made it easy.

How does SuprBay does its messages?

[ill88eagle]

Suprbay runs on MyBB which is written in PHP. It's open source, so you could just grab a copy instead of reinventing the wheel: https://mybb.com/

[RobertX]

Thanks for the reply, ill88eagle.

I won't be depending on other people's code since I want to reacquaint myself with Perl or PHP.

I have nothing against open source as I use open source, but if I rely on code that I didn't write, then the purpose of a revision would be defeated.

This isn't important as it's not a school project, so I will look at MyBB at last resort; I don't have to worry about cheating.

[ill88eagle]

Well, the PHP part is mostly a front-end of a mySQL database (serving threads as webpages in a neat readable way etc), and then there is some JS for dynamic input (the 'reply' and 'new thread' editors). It would probably be a good idea to study the code under all circumstances.

[RobertX]

illl88eagle, have you ever developed a PHP message board before?

Back in college, I archive all message submissions in the MySQL database. It worked magically, but it did look like a Facebook page more than a message board. Yuck!

This time around, I am trying to do this in Perl. I am having a hard time because that would mean that I need to link everything to a cgi-bin folder. Now, is that considered poor practise?

[ill88eagle]

illl88eagle, have you ever developed a PHP message board before?

Sort of - I worked a while on modding the MyBB software to function as a torrent indexer. It came out nicely but then I realized filtering out fake torrents was near impossible

This time around, I am trying to do this in Perl. I am having a hard time because that would mean that I need to link everything to a cgi-bin folder. Now, is that considered poor practise?

I've never really worked in perl besides irc scripts for xchat.

[waregim]

Perl is my main scripting language that I know best.
I would *NOT* write a web page with it.
CGI scripting has been long abandoned by most everyone, and I dont think mod-perl (Apache) is even used anymore.

I had an OSCommerce PHP website and used Perl to script database uploads for MySQL. I've done alot of mods with PHP but dont particularly like it as a language, nor the hamfisted way they have gone about deprecating functions between versions.

Ideally a handcrafted website these days would be written in the Javascript/Node ecosystem.

I may be needing to craft a website in the near future, and as I do not particularly care for JS that much, I will likely make a Django site and hone my Python skills.

In a pinch, there is always Ruby, with Rails websites, but Ruby is a bit too underpowered for real data flows - compared to Python and even Perl. Like ecommerce with 50,000 items.

If you are going to put the website on a public host, then the real challenge is not writing the website, but securing it.
Master .htaccess.