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[dirk]

This description assumes that you have jailbroken your iPhone and have Cydia and OpenSSH (preferred) or MobileTerminal installed.

- install lynx via Cydia

- install aptitude via Cydia

- login via OpenSSH

- create a download folder (optional)

- cd into the download folder

Download coredev.pub to your iPhone:

- lynx http://coredev.nl/cydia/coredev.pub
     'D' for Download, select 'Save to disk' (coredev.pub), press 'Q' to quit

Continue on the shell, run:

- apt-key add coredev.pub
- echo 'deb http://coredev.nl/cydia iphone main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/coredev.nl.list   
- aptitude update
- aptitude install perl

Test it on the shell:

- perl -v
- perl -e 'print "Hello World\n"'

[perkiset]

Frickin great Dirk ... Makes me consider jailbreaking my iPad and putting php on it.

[kurdt]

Frickin great Dirk ... Makes me consider jailbreaking my iPad and putting php on it.

I would consider ruby instead of php.. I'll bet ruby's syntax will be like ten times easier to write with ipad's keyboard than php with all those {}s and ;s.

[vsloathe]

I think you can install PHP straight from Cydia. I know you can install Ruby that way.