[Mikeirv]

I am just curious about the use of PHP and ASP together. I have huge web apps that are created in ASP. I am starting to become familiar with the strengths of PHP. I was thinking that I may use PHP to add some capabilities that ASP does not have. I don't want to convert my entire app to PHP because it would take months! Does anyone know of any problems doing this? Please avoid the obvious like "You need both PHP and ASP on the same server." I understand that. Thanks.

[nekeno12]

I have a system right now that uses both asp and php. But it's just a database system. All we're doing is making scripts that pass variables back and forth through method get or post. Obviously there's no way to merge the two languages, so we found a primitive way of just passing information.

[Mikeirv]

Yeah, this is essentially what I want to do. I just want to tap into PHP's capabilities that are not available in ASP. At least not without installing or purchasing 3rd party components.

[nekeno12]

Then pass information that you need PHP to complete using get or post.

Have PHP wait for the information using $_GET[] or $_POST[] and complete the function in PHP using the information that was passed to it.

I'm a little unsure what you're trying to do, so I don't know if this is a solution you can use.

[Mikeirv]

Yes, this is one method of doing what I want to do. I guess I may have phrased my question incorrectly. What I am really trying to find out is if there are any major issues with using PHP and ASP together. I know how to do it, I am just worried that I am going to run into a problem down the line.

[nekeno12]

How can you have them work together? You either name your file .php or .asp

Each works in accordance with their parent programming language. I don't think there is a way to merge the languages.

[Mikeirv]

Ok, Let me explain.

For example, Let's say that I have a bunch of images on a site. Users can pick images and use them in their profile. They can also choose to crop their image.

Image and crop information is saved in the database. X and Y are coordinates of the top left of crop area. Width and Height are width and height of the crop area.

image = test.jpg
X = 0
Y = 20
Width = 150
Height = 300

Now, I want to display the cropped image on the page for this user, but I don't want to save the cropped image due to server space issues. PHP can do this perfectly. So, here is how I do it.

In my asp page I have a simple HTML img tag as follows.

<img src="CropImage.php?X=0&Y=20&Width=150&Height=300">

When my asp page loads, it tries to load the php page and that page returns an image, so it displays it.

No post, and no info on the URL.

I understand that there is no way to use PHP and ASP together in one page(Other than above). There is however ways of using PHP and ASP in the same site. What I want to know is. Are there any problems with doing this????

[NeverMind]

well, virtual() is used to run executable files like CGI and SHTML,
but to make this work with ASP, ASP must a module of Apache..