Re: anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub.

is it really case sensitive? i don't think i've noticed! :-) Regards, John Thompson ""Greg Brunet"" <GBrunet@Semper_Soft.com> wrote in message news:9dcg4m$v7e$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net... > Well, as much as I like PHP, the article is accurate as far as running it on > Windows is concerned. It's not really a problem to get it running as an > ISAPI module (though the Windows install program wisely sets it up in CGI > mode only). I've continually tried to get the ISAPI version to handle some > moderately sophisticated & popular scripts (such as phpMyAdmin), and it has > consistently failed (with "Access Violation" errors - at least as of ver > 4.04 - I haven't tested 4.05 in ISAPI mode yet). It would be hard to > consider at least the ISAPI module ready for prime time until these issues > are resolved. > > As far as his database abstraction layer complaint - I would agree that > there are a number of choices out there, and PHP's choice of using the > native or abstraction layers should be considered a plus. > > Since I use HomeSite for PHP, CFM, & ASP coding, I'd also have to ignore his > complaint about the Zend development environment. I've never used the debug > facilities in ASP (Visual Studio) anyway, thought when I have used them, > they've been nice. > > Finally, one language issue that is a real pet peeve of mine is case > sensitive variable definitions. This is not a problem in either CFM or ASP. > While it can be somewhat worked around by setting the PHP error level > reporting to flag uninitialized variables, it is a deficiency that is long > overdue to be corrected. > > -- Greg Brunet > > > "Robert Klinkenberg" <robert@nts.nl> wrote in message > news:41995094E2FED31197F6005004B2739F02655E@RED... > > Nice to know that some well known pc magazine wants to test PHP. > > Not so nice to know that people testing software for a major computer > > magazine don't know how to read the manual. > > > > Installing as an ISAPI module is not THAT difficult (Or am I a genius?). > At > > least I don't know anyone having problems with that. And besides the > > majority of people on the PHPWIN mailing list seem to be capable of > > performing the steps in the readme file. > > <clip> > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >