By "as many platforms as possible" do you mean different web servers on Windows (in which case using ActiveX components is viable), or different operating systems (Linux? Apple's OS? Sun? z/OS?)?
Which specific platforms do you have in mind? I would not ordinarily recommend writing code in C unless absolutely necessary. What skills currently exist within your programming group? Which of those people are interested in learning new technologies, and which will resist? All the above will influence your choices. BTW - some portable equivalent to COM/ActiveX components would be great. The Mozilla project has XPCOM but I have no opinion on how well this was done. If XPCOM has any legs outside Mozilla then building XPCOM support into PHP could be a big win. -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Kauffmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 2:26 AM I've recently joined a new company and we're doing all of our web development (server-side) in ASP at the moment. We have to create a rather large scale application that will run on as many platforms as possible, so you can see how IIS can be restrictive to us at this point. The one thing that is imperative that we do, is to be able to hide the code of the application. In ASP, we would simple make a DLL and then create the COM object from the ASP scripts. I'm not the best with the Unix/Linux flavours of this sort of thing, so I'm not quite sure how we'd accomplish something of the same sort. I've been a PHP programmer for over a year at my old job, and I -definitely- prefer it over ASP or JSP as a scripting language of choice. I looked into making modules (binaries?) and then re-compiling them with the code to hide them. I assume this would mean we would have to write our code in C and then recompile from there? -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
