Posted by Chung Leong on 03/02/06 04:18

Jan wrote:
> I need to make form on our front page. If using PHP, I suppose the full
> page must be PHP though I need none of the PHP features until the
> submit button is pressed.
>
> Only 3% of the users press the submit button of the form, remaining
> users do not use the form and have no benefit of PHP features.
>
> I also need a cookie to store the referrer, if using perl for the form
> submit, then javascript is the only alternative for cookie creation I
> suppose.
>
> With heavy traffic the page might become slower with PHP than if using
> HTML plus a cgi-bin perl?

Very unlikely, unless the script performs some sort of database
operation. PHP can generate data far faster than the Internet can carry
it. Most of the time PHP will just be waiting.

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