Re: [cobalt-users] PERL of PHP/MySQL?

["Brian Curtis" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am a PERL programmer and I am looking into setting up several (hopefully
> large) index/database driven sites.  I know a good bit about Oracle and
SQL,
> but I haven't even attempted anything like that on my RAQ2.  I was
wondering
> if you could give me some suggestion, or pros and cons of a PERL flat file
> DB versus the pains of installing and using PHP and MySQL.  I haven't
> installed anything on my raq other than the things from Cobalt so I am
very
> new and stupid at installing things on Linux.

If these databases will contain many records, you will definitely see a
performance improvement using any SQL backend vs a flat file.

The PHP/MySQL installation combo has been thrown around quite a bit lately.
You might want to search the archives for said information.

BC