Re: converting a site in ASP to PHP. I need your advice.

You can try asp2php. Here's the site: http://asp2php.naken.cc/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maxim Maletsky" <maxim.maletsky@japaninc.net> To: "'PHP General List. (E-mail)'" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:17 PM Subject: [PHP] converting a site in ASP to PHP. I need your advice. > Dear Gurus, > > My company is about to acquire a website and I was asked from my boss to > evaluate the cost of maintaining it. > > This website was designed entirely in ASP and VBScript hosted on a Windowz > NT4 using MS SQL on it's backend. > > What I just listed above is the worth configuration I could ever imagine. I > would really like to rewrite it all in PHP and connect it to mySQL or > PostgreSQL DBs on a Linux Red Hat 6.2. > > Now, I don't know a jack about ASP. I am guessing that MS SQL can be > transferred quite easily to mySQL, but what about ASP? > > How hard is it to transfer? Anyone of you has any experience like that? > > If I will host the website where it is right now it all will work, but I > will not be able to extend it in future, that's why I want it to become > another site powered by Open Sources I always work with. > > I also heard about ASP for Linux. Is that as easy as to cut&paste the whole > site or there are still some configurations and pain to support? > > What about just rewriting file by file from ASP to PHP? Would it be easy for > me knowing well enough PHP to write some quite complicated apps but having > never examined a single ASP script? > > What could you advice me. > > Thanks in advance, > I would really appreciate any your help. > > Maxim Maletsky - maxim@j-door.com > <mailto:maxim@j-door.com> > Webmaster, J-Door.com / J@pan Inc. > LINC Media, Inc. > TEL: 03-3499-2175 x 1271 > FAX: 03-3499-3109 > > http://www.j-door.com > <http://www.j-door.com/> > http://www.japaninc.net > <http://www.japaninc.net/> > http://www.lincmedia.co.jp > <http://www.lincmedia.co.jp/> > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > -- > 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