Posted by Mladen Gogala on 10/09/91 11:36

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:19:26 -0800, pc wrote:

> Our company wants to use PHP for the front end GUI. Not having had much
> experience with PHP it seems to me that the way to do the above would
> be to do steps 1, 2 and 3 with Shell / Perl scripting (Perl being
> designed for text file manipulation) and then to use PHP to provide the
> GUI.

PHP can do pretty much anything that Perl can. OK, for some capabilities,
like reading/writing Excel spreadsheets and LWP, I would still go to Perl,
but text file manipulation can be done perfectly well with PHP.

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