RE: [PHP4BETA] ActiveX PHP?

Prompting for database username and password and passing it remotely to the database server stored in a session would work. m -----Original Message----- From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:andi@zend.com] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 2:36 AM To: Dave; php4beta@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] ActiveX PHP? At 01:21 AM 3/17/00 -0800, Dave wrote: >Just out of curiosity, and to anyone that might know, how difficult would it >be to port PHP to an AxtiveX scripting engine like the jscript.dll, >vbscript.dll or PerlScript (or is there a project already started) ? > >I was thinking about this the other day and the possibilities are >interesting to say the least, to be able to do client side scripting (win32 >only I assume) with PHP4 and utilizing all the power of the available >libraries (mysql, ldap, imap, etc). There is currently no such project it probably shouldn't be that hard although I have no idea how the interface works. There would be some interesting applications but I doubt these would include connecting to a database server. You don't want to have the database password on the clients' machine. Andi --- Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ -- PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net