[thelist] Calling PHP Gurus

[Eric Cestari]

Hi Sean,

As you said, the function crypt does not exist on Win32.
If you mean to keep your code portable, you can use the following snippet
:(with an excerpt from php.net :)
<?
if(!function_exists("crypt"))
{
        function crypt($plainString, $salt)
        {
            $command = "perl -e \"print crypt('$plainString', '$salt');\"";
            return  exec($command);
        }
}

?>
So that if you happen to migrate to Unix, you will use the standart crypt
function without recoding.

<tip type="php4" author="Eric Cestari">
To get quickly to function reference, i.e for crypt(),
just type in your browser http://www.php.net/crypt .It will head you
directly to the manual w/ user notes.
</tip>

Cheers,
    Eric Cestari
>
>
> I've got PHP4 from the site and I even moved all the dlls into the
WINNT/SYS32 subdirectory.  I'm
> running this locally (Win32, NT4 box) and I've got PHP in the root
directory as well and not an
> Apache subdirectory.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to rectify this problem?
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Sean Preston