Thread: CGI vs. PHP
View Single Post
Old Dec 18th, 2005, 12:22 PM   #3
commodore
Programmer
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Estonia
Posts: 97
Rep Power: 0 commodore is an unknown quantity at this point
I'm not stupid. CGI (common gateway interface) is a way of programming web sites. It works like this: someone visits /index.cgi and an app is executed on the server which output is displayed in an html file.

I wanted to know why should I use PHP to make websites not some scripting language or anything. I have seen a cms made in python for example. Why do people make sites in PHP not in some "regular" programming languages?
commodore is offline   Reply With Quote