We have a few apps which were written in ASP (VBScript) that we needed to port to PHP. For a few pages I went through and converted everything ex:
<%if a = 10 then%> to <? If (a == 10)?> line by line.. After finishing a page or two like that I realized that was not the best way. The problem with using a converter or porting straight over was that you are not able to leverage a lot of the PHP specific functionality that ASP might not have had. The other problem is there are a lot of times where the best way to do something in ASP is not the best way to do it in PHP. I would recommend taking a look at the pages and seeing if you can rewrite it in PHP, take all the logic and all the presentation code from the previous pages, but put new PHP code to that instead of trying to port. Porting is possible, but trust me you'll rip your hair out in the process. We use PHP with SQL Server and it works great, there are many features missing in MySQL that we consider essential with SQL Server. Not to get into DB holy wars but are you trying to switch them to MySQL just because it's open source, or is there another driving factor for the switch (i.e. mysql does something sql server doesn't?). Now that I've said that, we also use PostgreSQL and that can do nearly everything SQL Server except it's missing an awesome GUI front end like Enterprise Manager. People knock SQL Server for being a Microsoft product, but I have yet to see a DB app that works as well as Enterprise Manager. Even tools for Oracle pale in comparison. Nate Tobik (412)661-5700 x206 VigilantMinds -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
