Re: [PHP4BETA] ActiveX PHP?

Work, yes. Be secure? Not unless you're using SSL or the db client and server communicate securely. (I think MySQL does some sort of encrytion on network connections?) Cary Thus spake Michael Nino (mnino@Insight.com): > 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 -- Cary Collett cary@ratatosk.org http://ratatosk.org/~cary "To me boxing is like ballet, except that there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit eachother." -- Jack Handy