Re: General Information About Porting a Monolithic Perl CGI Script to PHP

At 22:26 14.03.2003, Richard Ward said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >Also, from my reading, it sounds like some of the features I might need in >PHP are considered extensions. For example, my Perl script makes heavy use >of searching and replacing using regular expressions. I've read on the PHP >web site that Perl-like regular expression support is now part of the >typical installation of PHP (maybe I got this wrong). My concern is, well, I haven't come across an installation of PHP that doesn't have Perl-compatible regex (the preg_xxx functions) enabled. >I am not using any Perl modules, so this shouldn't be a concern, although >I've been considering using the Perl DBI module for generic database >support. I have not yet found a DBI equivalent for PHP. Have a look at ADODB (http://php.weblogs.com/). This is an attempt to create a database-independent layer for PHP - it works with most major databases (including ODBC) and keeps you off the hassles of implementing database-specific code. (Disclaimer - this is not, and cannot be, valid for non-standard SQL extensions offered by any particular database, if you're using them). -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/