when to move from php to c

Anon

I'm working on a new project, having written a couple of decently big things in php.

I'm trying to do everything by the book; and it seems like keeping HTML and code together is a mess; I should be doing it all more methodically.

So it just struck me: why am I using PHP at all? Shouldn't I be using C?

My C's pretty rusty, and it will be a lot of work to set everything up & let my hosting provider give me a compiler.

So, really, in short: is it foolish to use PHP and not mix code with html? Is doing this just using a crippled C?

Thanks.

nevermore2181

First, explain how you mean 'keeping HTML and code together is a mess'? And doing it in C won't be? First off, no matter what: when you're using one language to dynamically generate another, they will always be inter-mingled.

Anon

OK, good question.

Basically: it's not important to me at all that someone not familiar with the programming can change the HTML (which often is important in php programs).

And: the sections of my program, e.g. 'help', 'admin', etc., I don't really want to have separate "help.php" files with HTML in them. I want pretty much all the HTML abstracted away.

So I was doing all this abstracting in PHP; and suddenly I thought "aren't I now using PHP for no reason? - since now everything could be done in C almost as easily?".

Anon

Hello,

Do you mean C CGI or C ISAPI? There is a difference there. If you are on Windows Platform ISAPI app's will rule over PHP.

I agree that CGI's for large portions of website ( such as website administration ) are better off created in C.

my 0.02$

dannys

Nah, I'd stick with PHP TBH, build a decent little content management system in PHP which uses templates (a nice way to keep HTML & PHP separate).

This the admins can update HTML templates in DreamWreaker and FarsePage, update the content through Web Forms and never see or handle any real code. It still gives you the power to change just about everything codewise without the need to rewrite the HTML.

Yes, you could do the above in C just fine but you'd lose all of PHP's attractive features instantly, unless you could replicate them in C. And you'd need to recompile if you changed the server architecture. On the plus side, you source code would be nice and hidden though, being compiled and all.

Just my $0.02 - do I get change?

HTH.