Is ISAPI broken? : Weird stuff with PHP4 in Win 2000 / IIS5

Hi: I've been trying to check out some more substantial PHP code, and took a look at the Building an E-Commerce Site articles at DevShed (e.g. http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Commerce1/print.html) Nothing much was working right for me at first (the pages came up blank in the browser), so I started running them from the command line (e.g. "\php4\php index.php | more" ) in order to see if anything was being generated. An interesting thing happened then! I noticed that the PHP.EXE was getting further into the code than the when called from the browser. Someone mentioned a while back that the ISAPI port was flaky - but I've not seen mention of this in the newsgroups. I am getting complaints like the following in the web browser: 1) When index.php does an: include("application.php"); which in turn contains: ========== /* define a generic object */ class object {}; ========== it causes a: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class object in application.php on line 19 2) If I just try to paste the application.php code into the index.php file, I get varying errors - either the same message (with a different file name & line number), At this point I'm wondering: 1) what is causing this weird behavior - why does the command line PHP.exe work, but the php4isapi.dll not work properly? 2) Why isn't this problem given more visibility - such as on the PHP web site? I've changed the Application configuration within the Internet Services Manager (default web site Properties | Home Directory Tab | Applications Settings Configuration button) for .PHP to point to the php.exe, which seems to fix the problem for now. I also removed the ISAPI filter setting for .PHP in case that made a difference. Any ideas about this weirdness? -- Greg Semper Software, Inc. www.SemperSoft.com GBrunet@SemperSoft.com