You should target all your time into what is basic to have it all working: (imagine that your 6 months have expired, what would you do to have something working?)

Everybody knows that you could start coding something that works in PHP faster than in perl.- That is why PHP exists. But PHP has always some sort of respect towards what is written in perl.

That said, I think that your main target now, is to know more about www working. Concepts that are the same in any language. If you use a site, you are not easily going to know if it is working in C, perl, PHP or in Basic.

It is a must to know what you are going to need to manage your site: sessions, databases, multitier layers, TCP-IP, etc. So, it would help a lot if you face it with some language in mind.

We use to forget our new language. The best of all: Open Source. Yes, the language of the people, not a companies language. That is: you could start standing on the shoulders of a working project like http://krang.sourceforge.net/ , for example. That uses one of the most outstanding perl modules & technology: CGI::Application.

Then, you should start studying the code and the web concept. As well as subscribing to the Krang forum to check your doubts and learn other concepts.

Little by little, as long as you understand how it is all working, you'll be adding what you need to make it your own site. The benefit is that as long as you are studying it, the project keeps on growing in complexity, with you riding over it all the time!

In that way, you might spend your next 6 months in the right direction.

Forget about the speed of your code. But build everything with mod-perl in mind. After you have something working fine, you shouldn't bother about speed. You shouldn't even notice the difference. Read about Krang and you'll learn that it actually has mod-perl in mind. But is not exclusive to that.

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