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

Thanks, you've been very helpful to my problem. I appreciate that. Maxim Maletsky. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Lynch [mailto:richard@zend.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 1:15 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] converting a site in ASP to PHP. I need your advice. > 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? Actually, you may find the opposite, depending on how funky they wrote their SQL... There are a *LOT* of features in MS-SQL that simply aren't available in MySQL, and quite a few that aren't in PostgreSQL either... You can use PHP with MS-SQL, you know... So you can convert in two stages: ASP -> PHP first and MS-SQL -> ??? second. If the SQL is really hardcore or you need failover replication on the database, you may need to consider Oracle/Sybase/Informix/DB2. MS-SQL server is really more in that league (just comparing feature-set folks) than in the MySQL/PostgreSQL league. > How hard is it to transfer? Anyone of you has any experience like that? The OpenSource product asp2php (search the 'Net) will convert the bulk of the ASP scripts -- You'll still have a lot of hand-fixing, but most of the syntax will be converted. The dumber the ASP hackers were, and the more code they had written for them by automated tools, the better asp2php will do at it, probably. > 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? I don't think ASP for Linux is stable at all -- Like, even less stable than ASP on NT, if you can imagine that... > 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? You'll probably be okay on *most* of the ASP -- It's mostly just BASIC code doing the same stuff PHP does. (For the record, PHP pre-dates ASP...) There will probably be some goofy things that you'll have to read about on ASP forums to figure out what they were trying to do, and then do it the right way in PHP. -- 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