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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/23/07 23:05
Doan Noahlot wrote:
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> Fair enough.
> The only thing that really makes sense is to mirror the
> server environment on your desktop. I like to use Netbeans
> for Java. I have an old Zend for php. Can't say I like it much.
> I'll have to suck it up and get eclipse/php going.
> Last time I looked it was still in beta.
>
> QUESTION:
> Does it make any sense to use php on a windows server?
> I mean it might be better than asp/.net (which I don't
> know about). But why *would* a person code in php on
> a windows machine, when they could do it on a linux box,
> which is sooooo much more convenient, it seems to me.
> (ssh, perl, python, version control, cron, etc).
>
> I'm not trying to insult or start a war, I'm just
> curious. Why run php on a windows server *rather* than
> linux? I'm perfectly willing to believe there is a
> good reason. I just can't imagine what it is.
Sure, I run it on a Windows box for a lot of reasons.
For instance, one of my sites is mostly VBScript/ASP, so it needs Windows. But
they wanted some other things (like blogs) which are more readily available in
PHP. Additionally, I'm working on a project right now where I need to post data
to another site. This is easy with PHP AND CURL; much more difficult in
VBScript/ASP. So sometimes I'm passing stuff from a VBScript page to a PHP
page, and vice versa. Maybe eventually we'll get it all PHP.
And I run it at home because I duplicate environments. I've got both IIS and
Apache on this system; I just start whichever one I need at the time.
Plus I use this machine for things in another business where I pretty much need
some MS products to work with customers there.
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