Dr. Robert Kline, of West Chester University, has created a very handy two-column, single-page comparison of Perl and PHP, ideal for those of you that need to convert some code. Not only does he give you simple coding examples for both languages, he also shows how to use mySQL in both languages.

Nice work, Dr. Kline. […]

Four years ago, I designed and co-wrote a book on web programming using PHP and mySQL. None of the introductory chapters on PHP, XML, WAP and other topics made it to the final print edition. My plan is to release the intro chapters on PHP on this blog.

What I have to do is massage […]