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RE: [PHP3] PHP3 and ActiveX From: Alex Belits (abelits <email protected>)
Date: 07/17/98

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Shane Caraveo wrote:

> > I'm not trying to be a jerk and this isn't directed toward anyone.
> >
> > I just love to do reality checks ;-)
>
> Fun right? :o)
>
> > Reality check..... (http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/)
> >
> > Check out market share and growth rate
> >
> > Since Apache is still primarily unix based, hmmm......looks like most
> > people in the world are not running their servers on a M$ OS.
>
> I'm fully aware of whats in use on the internet, and I'm often the first to
> say 'use apache and php on unix'. That has nothing to do with what
> wordprocessor is used in the corporate world. Your average secretary is not
> using emacs in sgml mode and producing documents that are easily transfered
> to other formats

  Use laola, and Word format will be converted into set of blocks text.

> (hell, your average web designer isnt either :).

  No, he does -- at least most of pages still _are_ in HTML.

> They're
> using word, wordperfect, excel, etc. Being able to manipulate these
> documents via com (or some other technology, or activex if that is your
> wish) would simply be a benefit to many people.

  It won't be bad if those documents will be converted, so other
applications on other platforms will be able to use that data.

> Millions of documents are
> being produced with this software. In the short and long term, not to
> address that issue, is shooting ones self in the foot.

  _Right_ way to address that issue is to use cross-platform format
parsers and convertors -- in any case one won't want to, say, display data
or do anything interactive on the server, what a lot of COM stuff other
than Word/Excel/Access is limited to, and if the real issue is formats, it
can be done directly easier. Laola is in perl, so it may be rather tricky
to use it with php though.

  As a semi-solution one can use php as fastcgi or remotely
connected fhttpd module on Windows box while server is running somewhere
else, but both ports don't exist yet. 

--
Alex

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