Re: RE: PHP on Win32 Website? - White Papers!

I really would like to contribute to this page. If info or knowledge is needed, please contact me. Dave D.kingma@student.utwente.nl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joao Duraes" <joao@duraes.com> To: "Php-Windows" <php-windows@lists.php.net> Cc: "Mark Nold" <Mark.Nold@normandy.com.au> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 1:20 PM Subject: [PHP-WIN] 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/ > > > > -- > 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 >