[CLUE-Tech] Starting PHP

[Brandon N]

php version 4 does support sessions, I've heard that it's much better
than ASP's support, but that could just be zealots speaking.  

the best info is at www.php.net and www.phpbuilder.com

you may also want to check this out:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/asp2php/

Brandon
--- Dan Harris <coronadh at coronasolutions.com> wrote:
> 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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