[CLUE-Tech] Starting PHP

[Dan Harris]

You bring up some good points here, Grant.  I have been working with ASP on IIS
for a few years now.  Although I have been moving a lot of functions over to
Linux servers, I have run into some problems with replacing my ASP work with
php.  

I use a lot of windows-only objects that have no equivalents on Linux/php. 
Charting/graphing and Crystal Reports are the two major ones.  Then of course,
I'm still unsure of how people are maintaining state in php applications.  Is
tehre an equivalent of the "session" and "application" object found in ASP/IIS?

I've also looked into the ChiliSoft ASP, but it appears that I wouldn't gain
anything in portability other than the 99% compatible syntax.  Those COM objects
are tough to give up..even as big of a Linux bigot as I am..

-Dan Harris



Grant Johnson wrote:

> PHP is taking off.  PHP as an Apache module outnumbers all NT/IIS
> installs whether they are using ASP or not.  As a comparison:  PHP is
> object oriented, if you want to, but it does not force you into and OO
> API where it does not make sense.  It also does not use so mant
> enumerated constants, and those it uses always work.  It is a bit more
> predictable, and does not give random partial results under heavy load.
> Generally, it is simpler, more powerful, more versatile, and faster.
> 
> The only downside is that if you have a heavy investment in using
> objects linked in from MS Office or something, it is not going to do
> those things, but why you would be doping that server side on a web
> server, I have no idea.
> 
> As for learning it, there is a tutorial at http://www.php.net/manual
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