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

Thanks for the thorough answer. However I am still uncertain what is the best method to run PHP under windows. In my case I am dealing with very high traffic sites (a college website and intranet). Do you think that the ISAPI for IIS would be the best solution? Cheers, ______________________________ Lukasz Karapuda developer -- newline Creations LLC. @ luki@thenewline.com Y! lukaszkarapuda "Christoph Grottolo" <cg@gordimer.net> wrote in message news:gi0u2v083m7a6u0d6rf2up2f74vvhmkl22@4ax.com... > 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