Re: Portability of PHP from windows to Linux
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Re: Portability of PHP from windows to Linux

From: Nicholas Sherlock <n_sherlock@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 05:34:32 CEST

seth wrote:
> I would like to know how portable the code will be. Do we need to
> rewrite a lot of code when we move from Windows to Linux? What are the
> issues I need to be aware of?

The code I wrote that works fine on my local EasyPHP testing server
(Windows) failed on a commercial server (Linux) because table/field
names in the MySQL database were apparently case sensitive on the server
(Worked fine here). Watch out :). All lowercase names is a good standard.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
Received on Mon Oct 24 02:09:36 2005