Really no main conclusion, laserlight.
Because as bradgrafelman told, it was not as minimal as I thought.
One partly conclusion I have reached is
that a problem that you will face immidiately is database related.
It looks as I can should be able to use ODBC with Microsoft Text Driver
This is a driver for .txt .csv files.
I could connect PHP ODBC to such a Database I had created in my PC.
<?php
$conn = odbc_connect('phpmini1','','');
if (!$conn)
exit("Connection Failed: " . $conn);
else
echo "Connected: " . $conn;
echo '<br />';
$sql = "CREATE TABLE users (
id INTEGER,
username CHAR,
password CHAR,
email CHAR,
timestamp INTEGER
)";
$res = odbc_exec($conn, $sql);
if(!$res)
exit('create table failed');
else
echo 'success. table created';
Result: create table failed
I have no idea how to communicate with Microsoft Text database.
But what I understand it uses not CREATE TABLE.
It uses schema.ini file to setup and define a datafile:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709353%28VS.85%29.aspx
I have reverted back to my usual PHP Setup, with all database extensions.
It just is a pain and means a lot of workarounds to use Minimal PHP.
/halojoy