PHP advice, please.

[drake]

What is there to argue? You going to say that it WAS ALWAYS free? Cause I know for a fact that back in the pre 2000 days that wasn't but because Apache was killing them I think that made them switch to free probably.

[Grok]

I'm curious, how do you "know this for a fact"?

[drake]

Well back in the day when I was programming PHP3 I read multiple articles and books stating that to run IIS to use ASP which is an alternative to PHP, that you have to pay for the IIS software. This was when 98 and NT were the primary operating systems. I could be wrong but then that would mean my PHP books and some of the PHP sites would of been lying about the cost.

[Grok]

They were taking advantage of the fact you had to buy the operating system on which IIS runs.  IIS has always been free, but it has always run only on Windows.  It's too bad that PHP people had to resort to misrepresentation.

I did a google search to find any single page which indicates IIS has ever cost anything.  Came up with nothing.  I'd think if it was ever for sale, there would be some old web page displaying a cost or discussing its cost value.

[Camel]

You're on a LAN, you don't know your external IP, unless someone else tells it to you.

That's not entirely true: look under WAN\IP Address. Nobody else told me that -- unless you want to make my router a body. Without a router, one can use IPConfig (NT) or WinIPCfg (OT).

[drake]

Ya I am just gonna kick myself in the nuts then kick Ramus in the nuts. I have been propagandized by PHP Gurus and have never actually used IIS