[thelist] What tools should I use?

[Judah McAuley]

Ian Anderson wrote:
> I disagree about the extent of the issues. IIS and ASP are a stable, 
> predictable platform - the advantage of being the oldest dynamic page 
> technology. The only difference you get caught out by in the MS workflow 
> is whether CDONTS is available on Win 2k servers. You don't have the 
> multiplicity of versions that is inherent in PHP and Apache configurations.
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No to be pedantic, but ColdFusion predated ASP. ASP 1 (shudder) was 
introduced in 1996 as part of an NT service pack. CF was released in 
1995. And while not as full featured, SSI was also available around this 
time if memory serves me. Of course, it took a couple of iterations for 
either CF or ASP to really be usable, with both languages adding in a 
bunch of new features and often times breaking backwards compatibility. 
PHP follows that pattern as well, which is why I didn't start using it 
until version 4. You may note that while version 5 introduced a number 
of new features, backwards compatibility was a big issue for them and 
suprisingly little broke considering how much new stuff they added (like 
OOP). PHP is just a younger language.

> 
> php. ini - isn't this used when you start PHP? I don't think I have 
> access to this on shared hosting.

PHP supports run-time overrides of variables that are set as defaults in 
php.ini

Judah