When should I use Perl CGI instead of PHP (or vice versa)?

Question

For hobby purposes, I have a shared space on a hosting server that is providing, as many of them are, both PHP and Perl CGI. I have read on several places that CGI scripts

Answer 1

If you use hosting, in many cases PHP would be run as CGI too. If you don't want to run FastCGI or mod_perl, you can use CGI::Application framework. CGI::Application will run with FastCGI or mod_perl too, but unlike Catalyst will run as CGI too. Both Catalyst and CGI::Application also can be run with their own web servers.