PHP Problem

[Richard Lynch]

JohnsoBS at vicksburg.navy.mil wrote:
> You installed the CGI port.. You  need to install the apache module. CGI
> doesn't allow embedded php in the page.

Just for the record:
Unless the FreeBSD port does something really really really bogus, the
above statement is 100% wrong. :-)

Perhaps you are thinking of Perl CGI versus Mod_Perl (sp?) where such a
distinction (I think) does exist.

PHP as CGI and PHP as Module have very minor differences, primarily
related to functions/security that would make no sense in CGI or vice
versa.

EG:
You can't do HTTP Auth via CGI in PHP because, by definition, you'd be
passing the password between applications in an insecure way.

This is not to say that the rest of the post [cut] isn't true -- In 99% of
the cases of using PHP to spew out HTML, you want PHP installed as a
Module.

You may also, as I do, find it incredibly easy to use as a command line
scripting language and thus also want the CGI (or CLI these days) install
as well.

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