Re: Moving away from ASP to PHP

to make 'modules' you could look into PHP Pear... "Anthony Kauffmann" <akauffmann@electricpaper.ie> wrote in message news:20020731092608.61043.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi all, > > I've recently joined a new company and we're doing all of our web > development (server-side) in ASP at the moment. We have to create a rather > large scale application that will run on as many platforms as possible, so > you can see how IIS can be restrictive to us at this point. The one thing > that is imperative that we do, is to be able to hide the code of the > application. In ASP, we would simple make a DLL and then create the COM > object from the ASP scripts. > > I'm not the best with the Unix/Linux flavours of this sort of thing, so I'm > not quite sure how we'd accomplish something of the same sort. I've been a > PHP programmer for over a year at my old job, and I -definitely- prefer it > over ASP or JSP as a scripting language of choice. I looked into making > modules (binaries?) and then re-compiling them with the code to hide them. > I assume this would mean we would have to write our code in C and then > recompile from there? > > Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > Anthony > >