[Phpwm] wysiwig editor

[Mike Tipping]

The SQL server driver is currently for windows php only.

The issue here is that Microsoft are only going to write code that runs on
Windows. It will need to be ported to run with the other versions of PHP so
it will take a Linux developer to convert the Windows code to Linux. In the
case of the MSSQL server driver I can¹t see many Linux developers seeing the
need so maybe it won¹t happen. PHP is part of their ³open source technology
centre² so I guess the code is all available to the community.

PHP 5.3 is the first version that Microsoft have been involved with and they
have had to rewrite a large part of it as the source code was lost back in
PHPv3 and prior to 5.3 only 3 people know how to build PHP on windows which
is why it was always late being released. They showed benchmarks between the
PHP 5.2 and 5.3 on windows and the difference was pretty impressive.

On 6/3/09 10:22, "Andy Cowan" <andy at w4.co.uk> wrote:

> Not just a pinch of salt ­ am I the only one that finds this a bit worrying?
>  
> The post also included the line ³(but possibly only if the windows version of
> PHP)² ­ one of the best things about PHP so far is its cross platform
> portability, and it would be typical of them to start making the windows
> flavour of PHP the only real alternative, whilst the other platforms remain as
> poor cousins. At the moment, we develop on Windows and Mac and deploy to
> Linux, without any trouble at all.
>  
> I have no evidence of this ­ I wasn¹t at PHP London, anyone that was there
> able to reassure me? Or do I need to dig out that Ruby book? (only kidding!)
>  
> A.
>  
> 
> From: phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Lovell
> Sent: 06 March 2009 10:15
> To: West Midlands PHP User Group
> Subject: Re: [Phpwm] wysiwig editor
>  
>> > ³Microsoft are taking PHP very seriously and if you have any thoughts,
>> email them and they will listen² or so the bloke says.
> 
> Mmm, I'll take that with a pinch of salt. It may have been a good few years
> since we had a new Halloween document but that doesn't mean they've changed
> their tune.
> 
> 
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