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Subject: Re: anyone look at porting PHP to the 3000?
From: Mark Bixby <mbixby@POWER.NET>
Reply To: Mark Bixby <mbixby@POWER.NET>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 11:55:20 -0800
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Michael L Gueterman wrote:
>
> PHP does indeed look very interesting and a while back I started
> looking at it with an eye towards porting it.

Well, I just ported it this morning.  :-)  It took all of 4 hours, with most of
that time being spent waiting for things to execute.  You can grab it from:

        http://www.bixby.org/ftp/pub/mpe/apache-1.3.9-php-3.0.14.tar.Z
        or
        ftp://ftp.bixby.org/pub/mpe/apache-1.3.9-php-3.0.14.tar.Z

This is a "geeks only" release without any fancy namby-pamby INSTALL script.
It is meant to be untarred into a PUB group of an APACHEFW account.

I've only done the equivalent of a "power on" PHP test by trying out the
data.php3 example of the time/date functions.  I have not tried to run the full
test suite.

None of the zillions of add-on packages that PHP supports have been included.

Re-running either the Apache configure script or the PHP configure script will
likely undo a few hand-tweaks I had to make in order to get things to compile.
This port didn't break any new ground; it was just the same old tedious things,
plus lots of waiting while you rerun configure scripts.

I've never used PHP before until today.  This port investigation would best be
continued by an experienced PHP user (i.e. somebody other than me).  Hint:
porting isn't that hard, especially since I've already done the foundation work
for you in this case.  :-)

This is solely a Mark Bixby personal freeware production, and no current or
future support by HP should be implied.

- Mark B.
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