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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

First foray in PHP

So I've been a windows guy personally. Its just always what the companies where I worked used, and what I personally used. The web forum that I run has been using an antiquated ASP forum software for a while though, and it was time to move on. After evaluating some of the options, looks like vBulletin using PHP was the best one.

I have to say that I'm very impressed with my experience so far. PHP is installed and has been running like a champ on our IIS 6.0 server. The vBulletin and mySQL installs both went super smooth and I had the new forum up and running and data transferred in no time. I also made some custom php pages for redirects and the like, as well as a few edits to vBulletin's pages.

I'm happy with the speed in which I was able to sort of "pick up" php. I was a little worried at first about being able to jump into it, but its like an "easy" ASP with a little bit of asp and javascript syntax all thrown into one. All in all, easy to learn and because of the community support, there is all kinds of mySQL and php info out there on google.

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