asp and php

[Anon]

daft question but can i use PHP code within an asp page?

I need a temporary fix since we have three asp developers and one php person working on a web site and for a short time I need to bring their code together on one page.

Any advice, can it be done?

cheers Matthew

please post direct to me - thats fine.

[sepodati]

hmm....is there an equivelent of fopen() in ASP...basically open the .php page through an http connection and echo the results..

A PHP page loading some ASP would go like this:

$fp = fopen("http://www.you.com/file.asp?id=12","r");
$data = fread($fp,1000000);
echo $data;

or, even this, i think

include("http://www.you.com/file.asp?id=12");

There must be similar functions in ASP, it can't be that bad... 🙂

---John Holmes...

[Anon]

You can put PHP code inside an include
file in the server and call it from ASP. You'll need to tell your webserver (I assume it is IIS) that it understands how to process PHP scripts - see PHP installation document for Windows.

example.
1. php_code_include.php
<script language='php' runat='server'>
<?
function test_php($var)
{
phpinfo();
echo "$var";
}
?>
</script>

2. sample asp script
   <% @LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" %>
   <!--#include file="php_code_include.php" -->
   <%
   ' Call the PHP function
   test_php "Hello World";
   %>

Caution:
I have not worked with PHP for almost an
year now. And this code is not tested. However, similar mixing of VBScript
and Python works for me. You'll certainly
have to research how Microsoft's Server
Objects are exposed (or whether they
can even be exposed) in PHP.

Good luck
vsb
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