[PD] Why use Lua instead of PHP in my case ?

[Jack]

Le 20 mars 08 à 15:43, Frank Barknecht a écrit :

> Hallo,
> Jack hat gesagt: // Jack wrote:
>
>> My work consists in recovering datas from the Web and manipulate
>> strings with PHP. Then to store this datas in MySQL database.
>> After what i use another PHP/MySQL script and send datas to PD.
>>
>> Can you give me 3 goods reasons tu use Lua instead of PHP in my
>> case ? (speed, more easy to implement in PD, etc ?).
>
> I don't know of an external which adds PHP support inside of Pd. If
> you are talking about which programming language to choose outside of
> Pd: I'd choose whatever you feel most comfortable with. Of course one
> could debate which language is the "better" language, Lua or PHP, but
> I think, this would be very off-topic here.
Of course, I selected that with which I am more at ease. :)
In fact, i just want to know if Lua is as at ease as PHP with  
Internet, string operation and MySQL.
Lua is well implemented in PD, so i think it's not very off-topic here !
++

Jack
>
> Ciao
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