Posted by "Satyam" on 09/30/05 00:45

A real interesting challenge and when I first read it I thought the same
thing, instead of using the short form of tags, using a more extended form
such as
<script language=""> and so on, it should work, but then, Irealized that
there is a lot going on outside of the code, such as parsing the incoming
arguments of the POST or GET into either the $_REQUEST array or the
Request.Form collection and, on the opposite site, the assembly of the
output buffer.

Even in the CGI version of the PHP interpreter there is no provision I am
aware of to pipe either the request or the reply to any other interpreter
down the line, nor do I think the ASP interpreter has a CGI version. How
come you were able to do both a Response.Write and an echo and get them both
streamed into the same browser, I can't figure out. If you manage to send
headers from one or the other in any order it would be impressive, and if
from both, I would appreciate it if you would warn me to sit down tight
before you ever break the news. Other 'global' objects or arrays would also
mess up. Sessions, cookies, etc, I can't imagine.

Another issue would be sharing variables, calling functions or passing
parameters. I am certain that should be impossible.

A trick it should work, if you find any trouble with this is to do a sort of
'web service' with PHP which you can call from ASP, so you still leave ASP
handling the user interface as I assume it does now, and you can request
from a server running PHP (which might be the very same one) whatever the
PHP one cannot provide.



"Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@THERMON.com> wrote in message
news:0CEC8258A6E4D611BE5400306E1CC92708D472EB@smtmb.tmc.local...
> [snip]
> Your new job is getting real interesting!
>
> Did you try it on a test file? If it works then the parsing in the web
> server can be overloaded, for lack of a better term.
>
> So whether the extension is .asp or .php, watch for the tags and treat
> them
> appropriately, that it?
> [/snip]
>
> Darn right 'wow'!
>
> I can keep the ASP seperate from the PHP by use of the proper tags for
> this
> instance. So...
>
> <% stuff here gets executed by ASP %>
> <?php stuff here gets executed by PHP ?>
>
> Interestingly enough, the following worked ...but I will not use it in
> production;
>
> <?php
>
> $sql = "SELECT foo FROM bar where fooID = ' ";
>
> ?>
>
> <%
> response.write("fooID")
> %>
>
> <?php
> $sql .= "' ";
>
> echo $sql . "\n";
> ?>
>
> returned
>
> SELECT foo FROM bar where fooID = '4'
>
> Nuts, huh?

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