RE: PHP on Win32 Website? - White Papers!

Guys, this idea of generating some white papers as those listed below is great! I would be interested in writting about it. I had myself in the past problems such as "Why use PHP on Windows?" or even "How to successfuly do it!" so I would be gladly interested in contributing with some documentation Let me know if someone really wants to go ahead with this idea, ok? I'm ready to write one or more of the white papers suggested! Regards, Joao -----Original Message----- From: Nold, Mark [mailto:Mark.Nold@normandy.com.au] Sent: 04 July 2000 10:03 To: 'Adham Shaaban'; php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: RE: PHP on Win32 Website? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- Disclaimer: The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may be confidential or contain legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any perusal, use, distribution, copying or disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please immediately advise us by return email at postmaster@normandy.com.au and delete the email document without making a copy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- Adham, While i think this is a great idea, why not use the existing resources to start with? Why not write some technical papers and see if the phpbuilder guys will post em? Or get writing on the faqts site (www.e-gineer.com). This is not ment to discourage, but its a lot of effort to maintain a site so why not put your energies towards content? Let someone else worry about about management, marketing etc. Just make sure you keep copyright and copies of everything you do then once you have enough to fill a PHP-Windows site then splinter. Or you may want to ask someone to provide a win32 section on an existing site. Some suggestions for needed white papers; 1. Installing PHP on Win32 (With PWS, IIS and Apache) 2. Why use PHP on Win32? 3. Development server on Windows / Production Server on Unix 4. Using COM and other interfaces on Win32 (Maybe include Java and calls to DLL's .. which i dont know how to do...) 5. Compiling PHP 4 and extensions on Win32 (VC++ seems the only way to go here) 6. Stats on PHP versus ASP in Common tasks 7. Converting from ASP to PHP and vis a versa. (Examples of database calls etc) 8. ODBC Vs Native DB interfaces (ie: Why use OCI8 when ODBC is there?) Some suggestion for other PHP resources that are required; 1. Central repository for compilled PHP extensions. This would have to be by PHP version. 2. Success stories of PHP on Win32. Ill volunteer to help proof read and edit work, plus i could probably write some stuff later in the year if you like. mn -----Original Message----- From: Adham Shaaban [mailto:adhamshaaban@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 4:14 PM To: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: PHP on Win32 Website? Does anyone know of a website dedicated entirely to PHP on the Win32 platform? If not, would anyone be interested in helping out with such a site? It would be a great central resource for developers using PHP on Win32. It would also work to promote PHP as a stronger alternative to ASP/JSP. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/