Re: Visual Basic, *nix and PHP

There's no good way to do this, unfortunately. PHP may support DCOM in UNIX sometime in the future, which would enable you to call ActiveX VB components, but this is not currently supported. As for stability, no doubt you should not rely on PHP under Windows for a production server, unless the load is low enough for CGIs to properly handle it. Zeev At 00:14 21/08/2000, Ian Evans wrote:

We have a game developer who's getting ready to create an online game for us. His background is in Visual Basic programming and he's used that to create a succesful PC game with great reviews. He wants to program his game in VB, using .dll's to integrate it into the site. He's new to programming for the net and the VB method would be the most comfortable for him. Naturally, his leanings would make us look at running an NT system possibly with IIS. That's the platform we're currently running on using php3. But when I think about loads and reliability, etc., I tend to think we should be on a *nix system running Apache. Is there anyway to convert the VB .dll's to something that would "run native" in a Apache/Unix environment with PHP4? I'd just like to be able to suggest some options to the programmer. Thanks. -- Ian Evans -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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