PHP what is it again

Alphane · 19 Jan 2012 at 20:03

The reason for my question is I'm hoping to do a little 3rd party online game tools development.

Now I understand most of what I need

OS- the server will most likely run under windows server or linux

Html - Code for info to be displayed

CSS - code for how to display your HTML

CGI scripts - to be written in Python to provide the 'guts' of the program using HTML as I/O

SQL - Databasing functions

My question is .....

Where does PHP fit into all of this and what does it do exactly?

Alphane · 19 Jan 2012 at 20:27

Kotu said:
it would fill the same role as what you have for CGI scripts.

Ok cheers fella

Any advantages/disadvantages to using it over Python Cgi's or is it pretty much personal preference?

Alphane · 19 Jan 2012 at 20:34

The outline of the project would be .

1. Receive info pulled from an API.

2. Upload parsed logs.

3. Possibly upload 'cache scraped' data if I can work out how to do that.

4. Compile and compare above.

5. Several calculators based on the database.

6. Display relevant info

Alphane · 20 Jan 2012 at 10:46

Yes thats what I like about Python is it's diffrent 'flavours' for diffrent projects

Alphane · 20 Jan 2012 at 10:47

JimAroo said:
If you are going to use Python use the Django framework.

Personally I'd just go with PHP myself.

Any particular reason for that?