[Info-vax] PHP

[Arne Vajhøj]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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)

Maybe it is time to learn JSP ?

The MySQL JDBC driver is pure Java so you can just grab
standard one.

And a static typed language should not scare you.

Tomcat will gobble up some MB's of RAM though.

Arne