RE: [PHP] converting a site in ASP to PHP. I need your advice.

Thanks a lot, Dezider. I will definitelly ask you first whenever I will need a help on convertion. The fact is that I don't know ASP at all, but I am more then just fluent in PHP. once again, PHP, so far, is still the only language I know. (talking about these which plays with databases.) What do you think of asp2php ? can that be start? my concern is that we will lose too much efforts converting it and then our investment will not be that sweet. Thanks again, Dezider, Maxim Maletsky -----Original Message----- From: Dezider Góra [mailto:gora@wittmann.sk] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 4:17 PM To: PHP General Subject: Re: [PHP] converting a site in ASP to PHP. I need your advice. Well, it ca't be THAT bad.... Right now I'm doing the same thing - converting ASP code to PHP. I can say, I might be lucky, 'cause I wrote the original ASP code, so I know what it does. But AFAI can say, it's piece of cake. PHP _is_ extremly flexible language and from my point of view it's even easier to learn than ASP. I have programmed several years in Visual FoxPro, so I know MSSQL pretty well, and I wasn't lasy to write the pure ASP code - I didn't use DTC (Design Time Controls) in ASP, so my ASP code is clear and readable. I also decided to transfer my MS-SQL database to MySQL, even I miss triggers, relationships in MySQL, but when you know SQL, you can bussiness classes to take care of it. I separated the logic into layers: 1, Database layer - MySQL database which holds the data 2, Business logic - PHP classes that substitute MS-SQL stored procedures, triggers, etc. 3, Front-end layer - PHP pages, that show the result and interact with user. Maybe it's my VFP habbit of using three-tier architecture and object oriented programming, but I find it extremly usefull and easy to understand. And what I can say, php's support for sql servers is absolutly wonderfull. I don't have to mess up with connection objects, recordsets, command, and stuff like that as in ASP. It's just ten times easier for me. Just connect to the server, select the right database, and execute the query, and you got what you want. My php code is about half of original asp. So Maxim, if you need some help, drop me a mail and if I able to help, I'd like to. hth, Dezider. Dallas Kropka wrote: > 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 > > <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 > > -- > 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