PHP vs CGI: Whats Better?

Hey guys, whats your opinion on proxy scripts? Do you like PHP or CGI more? What do you use on your site? Please don't post someting like "PHP Roxzors my soxors" or "CGI FTW" Give reasons to why you like either one.

For example, i run my proxy at www.freesurfez.info and i use PHP because it is much faster. It also has many more options than CGI and uses less bandwidth. (or so im told)

 

Actually, CGIProxy uses less bandwidth than PHProxy, but is much more RAM/CPU intensive. There's the tradeoff. The new version of PHProxy can log onto MySpace, which was one of the big selling points of CGIProxy over PHProxy. Hope that answers some of your questions.

 

I'd go with PHP, CGI is left in the olden days now.. move onto the newer PHP generation.

 

CGI is old, so I'de vote for PHP!

 

php always, this should be asked in programming talk though,
wrong place i guess

 

The URL form in both versions of PHP Proxy is not stable, so I'd say CGI.

 

my heart goes for PHP!!!

 

PHP scripts have less processing overheads than CGI

 

I vote for PHP caz its easy to learn and implement.

 

PHP because then you can find more php programmer in the market too if you need to modify or anything in the script later on.

 

php offcouse cgi is old very old now

 

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but CGI is not a language in and of itself. It's the 'Common Gateway Interface' that is spoken by ANY language that is used to create dynamic / scripted web sites.

Therefore, almost by definition, PHP speaks CGI itself.

So when the OP mentions 'CGI', what exactly are they referring to? Perl? C applications?

 

He's referring to the popular PHProxy and CGIProxy scripts, respectively.

 

Thanks for the info, MrX. I just saw mention of 'PHP vs. CGI' for proxies and didn't really put two and two together

Sorry guys...

 

I think php is the better choice than the CGI

 

PHP gets the vote from me. My proxies all use PHP, CGI kills my CPU/Mem usage.

 

Pretty stupid thing to say, they both use the same amount of bandwidth because they both work in exactly the same way EXACTLY the same.

So is the sun and you'd be royally fucked if that were to dissappear, not a good reason.

When php runs on windows servers in runs as a cgi, you're totally right.

Both scripts are crap, and don't really constitute a website, but anyway IMO php is generally better and more flexible than perl which is what you meant by cgi I think.

 

You're right, I'm not even sure why I said that.

 

PHP proxy script is better imo anyway i use cybernaut's script which is better then cgi and php!
Sad

 

http://www.proxybucket.com/blog/2007/03/03/php-proxy-versus-cgi-proxy/

A detailed article about advantages and disadvantages of php proxy and cgi proxy.