Re: Re: migrating PHPs across machines...

[insert other shameless plugs here] On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > Abhimanyu_bhola wrote: > > Suppose I want to migrate PHPs from a Linux/Apache machine to an IIS > > box(having PHP installed) > > > > What needs to be done apart from physically copying the files??? > > what needs to be done to the php.ini file??? > > You may need to migrate any database code if you switch database types. > If you may need to do that in the future, you may want to start thinking > of using a database abstraction package that lets you write database > independent code so you don't have to rewrite much (any) code. > > In that case, the best option for you is Metabase. Besides allowing you > to write database independent code, it also allows you to define and > install database schemas using a database independent schema description > files all based in XML. If some day you decide to move, you may just ask > Metabase to dump the database schema and all the data stored in it to a > XML file that you can use to reinstall in a new database type and carry > on with you application as if nothing was changed. AFAIK, nothing > provides this facility, not with PHP nor anything else, not even Java. > > Metabase is freely available from here: > > http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/package/20 > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >