PHP versus CGI

[Brian Yennie]

FWIW, PHP sometimes _is_ run as a CGI script. It's not the norm, but 
PHP is just the language.
The advantage that PHP, Perl and others have it that they have commonly 
installed web-server modules installed, which is basically a built-in 
CGI.

- Brian

> * PHP is widely-used and popular ;
> * PHP deals with many of the intricit details ;
> * PHP is safer than CGI unless you add a lot to CGI ;
> * PHP is supported by most service providers/hosts ;
> * PHP is part of the very dominant dev platform: LAMP