>One of the drawbacks of the CGI version of PHP is its inability to use PHP-based authentication. Besides the overall performance hit, this would be the other glaring drawback. There's nothing, however, stopping you from using your normal Web server-based authentication; they're mutually exclusive.

This is the sort of stuff I used to earn pretty good money translating (well, not this exactly, but I have a pretty good "ear" for this stuff and with just a few questions asked of the idiot who perpetrated it, I could usually translate into something normal people can understand.

I think what this says is:

There are two types of PHP. Avoid, if you can, the CGI type because your computer won't perform at optimum. Even if you do have the CGI type, it won't prevent you from using your normal authentication routines, since they don't interfere with one another.


TEd