On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:55:37PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hello, > > i'm used to work with php for creating dynamic webpages. > I want to try to make shell scripts with it too and the 4.3.0 > version is able to do this. I know php already a bit and I'm fairly sure that PHP has been able to do this for a long time. I've got php4 here, and I have a /usr/bin/php4 binary; it's from the php4-cgi package. > don't want to learn perl script so that's the reason why i want > to go with php. That and the fact that i like c++. Huh? Neither of them are much like C++ at all. > 1. i saw that there isn't a 4.3.0 version available in the archives > yet. Now if i get the source from the website, what's the best > way to compile and install it on the system? > Should i read the debian maintainer guide to learn how to > build my own packages and make a package from it? You can, but it'll involve a fair amount of effort. > Is this the debian specific way when you want a package > that isn't available yet? One of them. I'm lazy, so I usually just get the source, compile it and use stow to put it into /usr/local. > 2. If i would want to use extra modules, i suppose i should > compile them too and make packages of it? Dunno much about php, but I guess so. > 3. Has anybody else used php for shell scripting purposes? > Any sites with shell scripts? I've seen a lot site with scripts > for webcreation but none with shell scripts. It's exactly the same, AFAIK. Seriously though, Perl is a much better choice for this, and has had a lot more work put into it on this front. -rob
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