Re: Surprises with PHP4/IIS?

You're right about the lifespan of SAPI versus CGI versions of PHP, but I can say from personal experience that the Windows PHP distribution with no extensions loaded is a very stable bit of code, can handle massive scripts and hasn't put a foot wrong for me for 18 months. I'm also as sure as I can be (based on many many hours sat at a debugger, without getting to the bottom of the problem) that the instability of the ISAPI module is down to some thread safety issue, which of course will not trouble the cgi version at all. The isapi module can fall over with a simple echo('hello'), and we all do loads of those in our scripts - all of which survive in the cgi environment. I'm as keen as anyone to see the ISAPI module reach stability, because apart from the performance benefits it would bring to thousands of users, I think that PHP is a fantastic secret weapon in terms of causing people to migrate from Windows to *nix, and the more encouragement people get to start to use it on Windows, the more people there will be who notice there's a much better world out there and jump ship. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll Dial Solutions +44 (0)113 294 5112 http://www.dialsolutions.com http://www.dtonline.org