Posted by Edward Pearson on 06/14/05 14:24

arjohn7481@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Can someone help me in deciding the development language?
>
> I need to develop a "regular console application" which will require -
>
> 1. Communication with another application over message queue
> 2. HTTP/HTTPS communication with another application
> 3. Parsing XML file
> 4. Persistent in memory for a range of commands execution
>
> I have investigated the above features in PERL and PHP. It seems it is
> possible to develop the application in PERL. I am a little bit
> skeptical about PHP because as I know it is suitable for website
> generation.
>
> Can someone explain if the application is possible using PHP?
> Is PHP suitable for regular console application?
>
> Thanks in advance
> A.R.John
>

I would personally use perl, however check this out:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/darrell20000319.php3

php can be used as a shell scripting lang. Is that what u are talking about?

2nd, you seem to want it to run a a daemon, wont MaxExecutionTime affect
that?

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