Subj : New Version Question
To   : Time Warrior
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 10:42 pm

  Re: New Version Question
  By: Time Warrior to Digital Man on Wed Sep 14 2005 08:28 am

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 > 
 >   To: Digital Man
 >   Re: New Version Question
 >   By: Digital Man to Time Warrior on Wed Sep 14 2005 11:15 am
 > 
 >  >  > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 > 
 >  >  > I noticed PHP is supported now.
 > 
 >  > Only via CGI (e.g. php-cgi.exe).
 > 
 > I'm presuming thats the file within Synchronet that is for using php as cgi?
 > Or is this somewhere within the php directory itself?

No, php-cgi.exe comes with PHP for Windows.

 >  >  > Is PHP pre-configured and all you need to do is download and slap
 >  >  > the files into a /sbbs/php/ directory?
 > 
 >  > No.

 >  >  > If not, is the way to config that documented someplace?
 > 
 >  > See the PHP documentation on using PHP via CGI.
 > 
 >  Which can be found via what link? Hrmmm... you ussually post documentation
 > links. Odd that you didn't this time.

I post links to Synchronet documentation, when relevant. Sorry, I don't know
the links to *PHP documentation*.

 >  >  > Also, does the new CGI feature allow support for other platforms also?
 > 
 >  >  > ASP? CFM? Perl? *.cgi (ussually also perl), etc?
 > 
 >  > Anything that can run as a CGI.
 > 
 > Unfortunately that deals more with programming code that front end web stuff
 > and as you know I'm not a coder, so please excuse my ingorance on what I may
 > not know and / or questions I might ask in the wrong way.

PHP and Perl, yes. ASP and CFM, I don't know... I doubt it.

                                                  digital man

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