php as a asp language??

[Anon]

I am currently working for a company that uses PHP/MySQL web apps to power many of their websites. They are exploring a partnership with another company that uses strictly ASP to script all their pages. It may be a bit of a stretch here, but I was wondering if PHP could be used as a language for the ASP environment? My C/C++ and VBscipt is a bit rusty and I prefer PHP. Thanks for any help.

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What exactly did you have in mind?

[Anon]

I would like to use PHP instead of, for instance, VBscript when working on ASP files.

[Anon]

why don't you just add a @LANGUAGE="PHP" and like, I dunno, just TRY it?

[Anon]

I already tried that one, but thanks for the input.

[toma42]

Well, the sneeky way to do it would be to associate .aspp (pulled extension out of my butt) pages with php and set
asp_tags=On ; allow ASP-style <% %> tags
in the ini file.

This will totally screw with the VB programmer that tries to modify your code, however.

[Anon]

The key here is "language for a ASP environment"
I don't believe so - Active Server Pages can work with any ACTIVE X Scripting Language
which, to my admittedly limited knowledge, rules out PHP. however, http://www.activestate.com 's ActivePerl works fine, as long as it's installed on the server 😉