Need some advice on a solution

[CrackaLackaZe]

I'm working on a web app for a professor. I have some cgi files written in C from a couple of years ago, and I need to write a script that parses those cgi files and then take in some input from the user and post the variables back to those cgi files. I originally wanted to stay with cgi and write a perl script for it. But the professor advocated php because he wanted to try a newer method. What do you guys think?

 

[KB]

CGI is so 90s. PHP all the way, as it is faster to develop in.