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  • Kazan
    New Member
    • Dec 2001
    • 9

    Several Questions - MS IIS + PHP4, to donation

    Ok guys, here's a few for you

    first off the higher ups in the project have ignorantly decided to deploy our server as a Microsoft Windows 2000 system running IIS4 - therefor PHP can only be run in CGI mode

    will there be any problems running the board?


    Second

    The main database is an SQL database - is there anyway to get mySQL and SQL to share data?


    Third
    The Site is - Math Challenge 2 - a site dedicated to keeping women in math and engineering jobs. The client is a lady from the University of Iowa, and it's programmed and designed by students of Cedar Rapids Washington High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)

    I am one of those students - part of the programming team.

    Right now site is due for some heavy overhauling - last year was the year of "oh yeah, lets make this great.. bleh bleh bleh" vaporware syndrome

    this year is seriously getting down to buisness


    --------------- The point
    I am in charge of getting the forums up and running - and what they had last year was a java-servlet based system - yuck. I have to convince them of my view that vBulletin is superior and a donated copy would help, we are a non-profit afterall.

    Microsoft has already donated thousands of dollars in software - Visual Studio 6, Win2K and IIS, SQL server, etc.

    I would definantly appreciate answering the technical questions - and if you can sending the free copy our way would definantly get you a Kudos from all.
  • JamesUS
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2000
    • 4622

    #2
    1. That's not a problem. I believe NT 4 can run PHP as an ISAPI module as well, though it's not particularly recommended. I have vB running on an NT 4 server and it's fine.

    2. Not really - you'd need to write a script to update the data between the two database systems. Or you would need to customise one set of scripts (either vB or your existing scripts) to use the other db system.

    3. Please send an email to [email protected] about the free license

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    • Kazan
      New Member
      • Dec 2001
      • 9

      #3
      ok cool

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      • Kaizen
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2001
        • 1884

        #4
        Similar nick
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        • Wayne Luke
          vBulletin Technical Support Lead
          • Aug 2000
          • 74123

          #5
          If you know Visual Basic programming, you could easily write an NT service that looks at both databases using ADO and ODBC to sychronize the data across the two database systems.
          Translations provided by Google.

          Wayne Luke
          The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
          vBulletin 5 API

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          • Kaizen
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2001
            • 1884

            #6
            Just out of curiosity;

            Does anyone know anyone that can program fluently in VB ?
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            • Wayne Luke
              vBulletin Technical Support Lead
              • Aug 2000
              • 74123

              #7
              Besides myself, I happen to know 5 or 6 other people who can do so.

              You can also check out the other site run by Jelsoft at www.vb-world.com and you should be able to find a couple of VB programmers.
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              Wayne Luke
              The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
              vBulletin 5 API

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              • Kaizen
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2001
                • 1884

                #8
                Cool.

                Thx.
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                • Kazan
                  New Member
                  • Dec 2001
                  • 9

                  #9
                  Originally posted by wluke
                  If you know Visual Basic programming, you could easily write an NT service that looks at both databases using ADO and ODBC to sychronize the data across the two database systems.
                  i do not and will not know Visual Basic - it's considerd harmful

                  I know
                  C/C++
                  Java (rusty, would need to refresh mem)
                  PHP
                  ZShell


                  and some others - nowhere near a full list - and i naturally know html and js

                  plus php supports Microsoft SQL - the functions are the same just the names are different

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                  • Kaizen
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2001
                    • 1884

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Kazan


                    i do not and will not know Visual Basic - it's considerd harmful
                    ??
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                    • Kazan
                      New Member
                      • Dec 2001
                      • 9

                      #11
                      there are good languages, and then there are bad languages

                      languages you learn that enhance your critical thinking of computer science subjects, and languages you don't learn because they would harm your critical thinking


                      Visual Basic is a very bad language


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                      on top of that it's part of Microsoft's Monopolizing strategy

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                      • Kaizen
                        Senior Member
                        • Aug 2001
                        • 1884

                        #12
                        Interesting Opinion....

                        I find Delphi/Pascal/php a nice mixture.
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                        • Kazan
                          New Member
                          • Dec 2001
                          • 9

                          #13
                          not bad.. . the first two languages are slightly antiquated though ... but you're prolly the elder of the two of us

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                          • Kaizen
                            Senior Member
                            • Aug 2001
                            • 1884

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Kazan
                            not bad.. . the first two languages are slightly antiquated though ... but you're prolly the elder of the two of us
                            lol

                            I'm not saying my age but i'm almost 100% certain that i'm younger than both of you.
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                            • Kazan
                              New Member
                              • Dec 2001
                              • 9

                              #15
                              i turn 18 in 20 days and i have been programming since i was 10

                              suprise me

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