[ILUG] [OT] Perl vs php?

[Barry Redmond]

Anyone have any thoughts on which is best for web server 
database searches?  I'm looking at linux+apache+mysql+perl 
versus linux+apache+mysql+php.  Measures of goodness are 
execution speed, and ease of programming (starting from a 
reasonable knowledge of perl but no specific knowledge of php).  
The database contains two tables with about 40000 rows in one 
and 20000 in the other.

tia
Barry Redmond
Dublin Institute of Technology