PHP versus CGI

[Alain Farmer]

>> * PHP deals with many of the intricit details ;

> Did you mean "intrinsic" or "explicit"? ;-)

Intricate, e.g. a large number of small details.

> Can you elaborate? What kind of details?

With PHP, all the web-form's elements are
automatically assigned to variables, with variable
names with the same name as the corresponding
form-item, such that you can use them immediately in
your script without any hassle whatsoever.

With CGI, you have to handle the appleEvent (on a
Mac), you have to parse the request, fetch the
information of the form, decode the special chars,
etc. Then, and only then, can you USE the info
submitted in/to your script. That's a lot of extra
work, particularly if you're also using any of the
environment-variables of HTTP.

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