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  1. <(template.plp)>
  2. <:
  3.     BEGIN { $title = 'Overview'; }
  4.     title "PLP"
  5. :>

  7. PLP is yet another Perl embedder, primarily for HTML documents. Unlike with
  8. other Perl embedders, there is no need to learn a meta-syntax or object model:
  9. one can just use the normal Perl constructs. PLP runs under mod_perl for speeds
  10. comparable to those of PHP, but can also be run as a CGI script.<br>
  11. <br>

  13. <: item "NEW VERSION!" :>

  15. The current version of PLP is <:= $PLP::VERSION :>: <a href="/files.plp">download</a> it now!<br>
  16. (PLP 2 users: read <a href="2to3.plp">PLP 2 to 3</a> to learn more about converting old PLP 2 scripts to PLP 3.)<br>
  17. <br>

  19. <: item "Fast and mod_perl!" :>
  20. (April 9, 2002) I'm glad to announce that PLP finally works with mod_perl, and with it, speed is great!
  21. It is two to five (!!) times as fast as PHP with 500 iterations of the following simple script:

  23. <:
  24. code Entity <<'END';
  25. $a = 1;
  26. while ($a < 400000) {
  27.     $a++;
  28. }
  29. END
  30. :>

  32. Now this is of course not a real-life situation, but a 250% speed gain is nice :)<Br>
  33. (Yeah, I know, this site isn't fast, but that's because this server is very loaded)<Br>

  35. <:
  36.     item "Counters and stuff";
  37.     $tel = Counter('count.dat');
  38.     $prev = ReadFile('prev.dat');
  39.     $host = $ENV{REMOTE_HOST} || $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR};
  40.     WriteFile('prev.dat', $host) if $host ne $prev;
  41. :>

  43. This page has had <:= $tel :> hits since the counter was reset.<br>
  44. The visitor before you was <:= $prev :>, and you are <:= $host :>.<br>
  45. (To view the sourcecode, choose (Source) from the navigation bar)