> -----Original Message----- > From: Lee P Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 29 April 2002 22:06 > > Just a quick question. I'm developing on a Windows machine right now, > and will later move it onto Linux. Should I expect to run into major > difficulty at all? I anticipate a few problems - mainly altering the > file system interaction, maybe even database connections. > > I don't know if anybody else works this way, but if so... did you run > into any problems, or was it a relatively smooth ride?
I'm running PHP 4.0.6 + Apache 1.3 + Oracle 8i on Windows NT as my development server, with the live site on 2 separate Solaris servers (Apache+PHP & Oracle). I have absolutely no problems moving files from development to live, and for the vast majority of cases need to make no changes to scripts. (But I'm not using stuff like email which is platform-dependent.) File system interaction is also not a problem, so long as you stick to using "/" (rather than "\") in all pathnames, have identical structures on both servers, and use relative pathnames whenever possible. (Absolute pathnames beginning with a / also shouldn't be a problem so long as all your Windows files are on the same drive, such as C:.) You might, however, come unstuck if you fall foul of rights restrictions on Linux which aren't enforced on your Windows machine. If you do come across any essential differences, you may want to consider keeping an installation-specific include file on each machine which defines constants for the relevant values. Then if a value ever changes (or you need a new one), you only need to edit the two include files, not all your individual script files. The only other thing to watch for is functions that simply aren't defined under Windows. Fortunately, most of these are well documented in the online manual -- but you need to keep an eye out for them! Good luck! Cheers! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
