combining server-side languages (like asp and php)

[Ton den Hartog]

Just found out my server-side PHP file needs to have the extension .php to
be interpreted by PHP. Ok, makes sense. But what if I want to combine PHP
and ASP ???? Or should I just not do that ? :-)

index.php.asp maybe ?

Ton den Hartog

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[Sharif Tanvir Karim]

"Ton den Hartog" <ton.den.hart...@tonh.net> wrote in message
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> Just found out my server-side PHP file needs to have the extension .php to
> be interpreted by PHP. Ok, makes sense. But what if I want to combine PHP
> and ASP ???? Or should I just not do that ? :-)
>
> index.php.asp maybe ?
>
> Ton den Hartog

I don't think you should or CAN do that...

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[Nikolai Chuvakhin]

"Ton den Hartog" <ton.den.hart...@tonh.net> wrote
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>

> Just found out my server-side PHP file needs to have the extension .php to
> be interpreted by PHP. Ok, makes sense. But what if I want to combine PHP
> and ASP ????

So far, to the best of my knowledge, this is impossible. ASP supports
VBscript and Jscript. You can get PerlScript from ActiveState and thus
allow ASP to support Perl. I am not aware of any ASP extension that
would allow ASP to interpret PHP...

Cheers,
NC

[SeeSchloss]

> "Ton den Hartog" <ton.den.hart...@tonh.net> wrote in
> message news:3feb37b0$0$331$e4fe...@news.xs4all.nl...
>> Just found out my server-side PHP file needs to have the
>> extension .php to be interpreted by PHP. Ok, makes sense. But
>> what if I want to combine PHP and ASP ???? Or should I just not
>> do that ? :-)
>>
>> index.php.asp maybe ?
>>
>> Ton den Hartog
>
> I don't think you should or CAN do that...

Maybe you could do something like
<?php include "file.asp"; ?>
in a file with a ".php" extension, but I'm not sure it is a
good idea...

Anyway, servers with support for both asp and php are
rather uncommon.

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[Ton den Hartog]

It is purely hypothetical of course. First my hoster supports both PHP as
ASP. Second the HTML spec says you can include all kinds of languages in the
HTML source so also a mix of them.
Why would it not be possible to have a "html" file with both a VBScript and
a PHP part that are BOTH parsed and executed before the response is sent to
the client ? As far as I know they will not hinder eachother. Only problem
would be if they start reading or writing to html-controls in forms and both
VBS and PHP are doing this to the same control, in that case the order in
which VBS and PHP are ran will influence the client-response html code

I agree it is a bad idea but sometimes it may be usefull and thus something
should be defined for it. Doesn't for instance Apache or IIS have a setting
for this kind of problems ?

Ton den Hartog
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[Nikolai Chuvakhin]

SeeSchloss <adres...@seeschloss.net> wrote in message
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>
> Maybe you could do something like
> <?php include "file.asp"; ?>

Won't work; the source code of file.asp will be included.

A better idea would be:

readfile ('http://www.mysite.com/path/file.asp');

> Anyway, servers with support for both asp and php are
> rather uncommon.

I've seen quite a few, and I expect PHP to gain additional
traction on Windows now that Zend had come up with Win Enabler,
which, according to Zend, makes PHP run faster on Windows
than on Linux:

http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-win-enabler.php

Cheers,
NC