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

May god have mercy on your soul... When I attempted this same project, it brought me to my knees, not only was it ASP (which I never looked at before or since) it was poorly written. After long periods in the fetal position, I decided to not even look at the code, but instead to look at the way the site functioned and write from scratch in PHP to copy the functionality... but not the unreadable code. I ended up with a site which looked the same, worked faster, and was (*SHOCKER*) more stable. I would recommend the same strategy for you... look at the way the site works, and not the code. Use the SQL DB for the new MySQL.... that should save time too. Mentally damaged... Dallas K. ----- 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 7:17 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 <O¸4 > ie¡ORŠèœ·óðhttp://www.j-door.com/> > http://www.japaninc.net > <http://www.japaninc.net/> > http://www.lincmedia.co.jp <žf™(åº}c·7ü > aw™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