Posted by Steve on 09/12/07 02:57

"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?

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