Re: Running PHP 4.3 under WIN 2000 IIS with MSSQL Server.

Hi luki@thenewline.com (Lukasz Karapuda) wrote: >Hello. > >I am in the process of migrating from a Win2000+ASP+MSSQL Server 2000 web >environment to a Win2000+PHP+MSSQL Server environment. Congratulations! >I would like to know of any negative aspects, concerns and performance >issues which come with using PHP in the above configuaration. >I am specifically interested if PHP will be able to support the following >functionality under Windows: > >1. Session Handling. yes >2. MSSQL Server access / ODBC access to MySQL server. yes. There are performance problems with access to remote MSSQL servers (see e.g. http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=21772). Why do you want to access mysql over ODBC? The native API is much more powerful... >3. E-mail sending functionality. Yes >4. DOM XML parser. don't know much about this. Have a look at www.php.net/domxml >5. Active Directory Access. Don't know much, you can connect over LDAP (http://ch.php.net/manual/en/ref.ldap.php#17098), there is also the COM interface (www.php.net/com) and w32api (http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php4/ext/w32api/w32api.c?login=2&r=1.8) >I am also interested what is the better(more stable, efficient) solution to >run PHP for WIN2000: >1. CGI for IIS stable, but not suitable for heavy traffic / high speed (works quite ok if you don't have too much traffic) >2. ISAPI for IIS it has not been too stable for a long time, but 4.3.0 seems to be a big step ahead. >3. Module for Apache 2.0. Don't have experience with that. > >Also, are there any problem connected with running PHP with IIS together >with ASP and ASP.NET on the same host? No. In general you'll find many additional info in the manual on www.php.net/manual/en (and the manual notes below the official texts). We use PHP with IIS on NT and W2K since 3 years in production environments without mayor problems. HTH Christoph