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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/12/07 03:08
Steve wrote:
> "Jim Carlock" <anonymous@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> news:46e7460f$0$11009$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>> Here it says...
>>>
>>> COM Support: enabled
>>> DCOM Support: disabled
>>> .net Support: enabled
>>>
>> And I'm wondering why PHP says .net support = enabled where
>> .net is NOT installed. I'm baffled by this one. It appears PHP
>> looks for one specific file and it exists, PHP declares .net
>> enabled, but .net is actually at least a 50MB package of files
>> which fill a few folders.
>
> .net support has nothing to do with .net being installed on a system,
> actually. it means that the ability for php to interact with .net has been
> enabled. the php source code that handles such interactions comes in the
> form of a c/c++ module that gets included in php when 1) the module exists
> and 2) is included as an argument when php is compiled before its use as an
> A) executable cgi, B) dll, or C) other module (as commonly used in
> conjunction with apache).
>
> whether or not .net itself is installed is a seperate issue. php .net
> support enabled simply means that you have the ability to use .net through
> php...of course, .net must be installed unless you intend to have php throw
> errors at you when you do try to use .net and the framework isn't there.
>
> btw, the .net framework is well over 50MB.
>
> does all that make sense?
>
>
Nope. By your argument, MySQL support would be enabled whether or not
the MySQL libraries are installed or not. But it isn't.
PHP cannot integrate with something which does not exist. But
obviously, since the extension is experimental, they still have some
bugs to work out.
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