[Info-vax] PHP

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In article <f1f260a2-1dad-451b-95e6-e4a9e44def61 at 3g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>, Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> writes:
>I was very disappointed to see no mention of an upgrade to PHP for SWS
>in the roadmap, especially after hearing last year that one was due
>out "soon".  All they list is the 'current' version, no mention of any
>updates.
>
>PHP (and to be fair Perl), even the ancient version now available has
>been instrumental in our being able to keep several VMS systems in a
>'primary' usage situation... without it more than one site would have
>ended up buying a wintel server to host their wiki/cms/etc internal
>websites on, further relegating their VMS boxes to a legacy, get off
>it as soon as possible mode.  With PHP we were able to provide the
>newer functionality they wanted using various open source packages, at
>little cost, and place emphasis on how versatile (and important) that
>nice multitasking reliable secure Alphaserver really is.
>
>We're running into a wall with one site now due to the decrepitude of
>the available PHP version.  The newer releases of their chosen package
>are dropping support (and operability) with PHP V4.anything.  This is
>going to be impacting at least some of the others soon, and we're
>going to have 'legacy, unsupported' rubbed in our faces again as we're
>forced to get them some wintel box to provide basic functionality.

I'd settle for just a mySQL module with a client API version of at least
the last century.  (4.something please)


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