Des Wass wrote:
> I am putting together a site for a client who has specific
> requirements. One
> is that it must run on NT (Internal server - would prefer to use PHP and
> mysql).
You can run PHP and MySQL on the NT machine. I'm not sure there is an Apache
server module version of PHP on NT, but there *is* a version of the latest
PHP. The latest MySQL for Win is not a "shareware" release, it's a
commercial version and costs around $200. The version that came out just
prior to the commercial release *is* shareware, but I don't know the
registration details. I'm not sure if the folks at MySQL plan on keeping the
latest NT version a "commercial" version, while always dropping the previous
version into the shareware realm.
There's also an ODBC driver for MySQL that I've tested on NT and it works.
I've put a system together that uses Cold Fusion on an NT and a Win MySQL
ODBC driver to connect to MySQL on a Linux box (and, previously, to connect
to MySQL on the NT).
> We need to integrate a catalogue database, create an admin interface to
> add/remove/modify products and evenutally implement an online ordering
> process.
>
> Wwhich should I be looking to use - Cold Fusion or ASP?
Depends on how reliant on either of those parties you wish to become. ASP
sure is cheaper, but the folks at Allaire/CF keep coming out with cool stuff
and their software is designed to be able to easily connect to other
"standards" (POP mail, LDAP, COM, etc).
If you use MySQL and PHP you can get pretty far without either CF or ASP. If
you develop to IIS, you can toss in some ASP when PHP won't do the trick. If
you use MySQL, there are also a few perl modules that you can use to access
the MySQL db.
> If both
> of these are
> no good, which solution for NT/IIS 4.0 would work well to provide a stable
> platform and a good development base.
You should tell us a little more about what you want to do. Are you creating
a new database, connecting to an existing one or porting? What tools are you
already comfortable with? How big do you need to scale? Will you need
transactions? Etc.
Jack
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