Randy Webb wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Grant Wagner wrote:
Tell your client to cough up the extra bucks for PHP or Perl support
with their Web hosting provider and do it correctly.
I have run PHP on Linux and Perl on both Linux and Windows (I believe
there's also a PHP that runs on Windows). Never had to "cough up" any
bucks at all? Where are you guys getting PHP and/or Perl and coughing up
money?
Yes, PHP runs on Windows, and quite well.
*Sigh*.
The original post read (in part): "... I am building a site for a client which
has an enquiry form on it. Normally I would something like PHP to send the
form but the client doesn't want to pay for a server that supports PHP, ..."
So it was the original poster who indicated that his client did not want to
pay for a Web hosting provider that supported PHP.
My response was: "Tell your client to cough up the extra bucks for PHP or Perl
support with their Web hosting provider and do it correctly."
I thought the whole "... support with their Web hosting provider ..." was
adequate to explain I am talking about his client's choice to host their Web
site on a provider who does not offer PHP support for the money they are
paying. Web hosting providers will sometimes charge more for PHP or other
server-side technologies over and above what they would charge for bare-bones
HTML only Web hosting (when and if they offer various service levels).
His client downloading and installing either Perl or PHP on either Linux or
Windows at no cost might be a great victory for the open sores software
movement, they might even be able to put together a kickass screaming site
that runs off
http://localhost. But it does his client NO GOOD WHATSOEVER
because none of the code written will do what it is supposted to on their
choice of Web hosting provider because they are not paying that Web hosting
provider for PHP support.
So yes, if I want PHP support on a publically accessible Web site hosted by a
3rd party, I will most certainly have to "cough up the bucks" if I want an
appropriate amount of storage, bandwidth, administrative tools, back-end
database, site logging and no Web hosting provider inserted ads (which is what
you'd want if you are a business running a Web site).
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