Posted by Andy Jeffries on 07/11/06 21:14

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:00:34 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>> PHP shell scripting is pretty rare.
>>>
>>>No, it's not. We do it all the time for reporting, performance
>>>monitoring and sysadmin tasks.
>>
>> The fact that you do it all the time doesn't mean it's popular among the
>> PHP community.
>>
>> In fact I also use it for writing CLI apps/utilities but I accept it's
>> not popular to do it.
>>
>> Or are you just trolling?
>
> Actually, I know quite a few people to do a lot of PHP scripting. It has
> several advantages over basic shell scripting.

I agree, two of the major advantages are common language for all
development and common classes for business objects. Those are the main
two reasons I do it.

> I would agree it's popular in much of the PHP community.

I still disagree it's popular in general within the PHP community. I
agree it's a good practice; I do it; I can

> Or are you just trolling?



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