I don't know which one I should use. You can use either one to do some of the same scripts, but I don't know which is best. I was told that one sometimes takes up more space and/or bandwidth than the other. Can anyone help me out? I'm getting a domain to host all four of my sites and I want to save as much space and bandwidth as possible :) I already found out that a CGI forum takes up more space, so I'll go with PHP on that one. What about: rating scripts, polls, and email forms? Thank you.

php is more widely used than cgi, i would go with php, its easy to learn and program in

I don't know that cgi/perl is more widely used than PHP at this time. PHP is easily the fastest growing web-programming language, but I'd like to see some statistics that say that PHP is used more than CGI/perl.

theres no statistics, its just I see more php used

if i were to choose, i would go php whenever possible. it is much easier to work with.

Thank you everyone :)

I agree. PHP is more widely supported by hosts.

HTH,

Originally posted by bellportal
I agree. PHP is more widely supported by hosts.

HTH,

Hmm...I've never seen a web host that supports PHP but not Perl....

Originally posted by christiandude03
Hmm...I've never seen a web host that supports PHP but not Perl....
Some hosts ban certain Perl scripts (bbs, chat) because it eats up the server resources. ;)

You may not have seen such a host... but I have *laughs evily*

Originally posted by toosweet4u
Some hosts ban certain Perl scripts (bbs, chat) because it eats up the server resources. ;)
Perl is banned in (almost) ALL free hosts.

Originally posted by bellportal
You may not have seen such a host... but I have *laughs evily*
Netfirms.

Originally posted by christiandude03
Hmm...I've never seen a web host that supports PHP but not Perl....

I agree, PHP isnt really used on more hosts than Perl. There is plenty of Perl scripts too, it just comes down to which you like better or know better.