Form Mailers - PHP or CGI

Rocky · 8th February 2003, 10:55 PM

What are the considerations when selecting to go for a PHP or CGI script for a form mailer?

Are PHP scripts as secure as a cgi nms script for example?

UH-Matt · 8th February 2003, 11:55 PM

We use PHP for all our formmail.

Purely because of all the hacks for previous formmail cgi scripts. If you decide to use CGI make sure its the most recent version, and keep it upto date.

dwilson · 9th February 2003, 12:07 AM

Personally, I think that PHP is much easier to learn and deal with than CGI scripts or programs. That's just my opinion. It could be that I just don't know enough about CGI techniques. I really don't know much C++ or C either.

Rocky · 10th February 2003, 11:09 AM

[quote author=UH-Matt link=board=7;threadid=315;start=0#msg1963 date=1044748537]
We use PHP for all our formmail.

Purely because of all the hacks for previous formmail cgi scripts. If you decide to use CGI make sure its the most recent version, and keep it upto date.
[/quote]

I would rather switch to PHP because its a little less hastle than cgi, but looking at it it just seemed more open to abuse - but if you guys use it that's good enough for me.

UH-Matt · 10th February 2003, 11:12 AM

formmail is the most abused script on the internet.
Older versions are banned from our servers its so insecure!

Go with PHP

Rocky · 10th February 2003, 11:14 AM

[quote author=UH-Matt link=board=7;threadid=315;start=0#msg2042 date=1044875540]
formmail is the most abused script on the internet.
Older versions are banned from our servers its so insecure!

[/quote]

Yeh I did plenty of reading on it, pretty horrific. The new NMS formmail scripts are okay though, allegedly.