[Netoffice-cvs-3x] Re: project requeriments

[<jo...@jj...>]

I've been programming in PHP5 with MySQL 4.x for awhile and I'd go for this
configuration too.

Dylan, configuring PHP5 isn't much different form configuring PHP4. :)

We can abstract the DB layer using PEAR::DB package.
(http://pear.php.net/package/DB)
This way we can make Netoffice compatible with lots of DB including:
dBase
FrontBase (functional since DB 1.7.0)
InterBase (functional since DB 1.7.0)
Informix
Mini SQL (functional since DB 1.7.0)
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL (for MySQL <= 4.0)
MySQL (for MySQL >= 4.1) (requires PHP 5) (since DB 1.6.3)
Oracle 7/8/9
ODBC (Open Database Connectivity)
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Sybase

I'm currently developing my applications in Windows XP Pro with is the same
as Windows 2000 Server with IIS5. But I can Test it also on Windows 2003
Server with IIS6 and Fedora core 3. I have access to a MAC but I can only
use as a client, I mean, I can access the Netoffice development site (if we
crate one) but I will not be able to run Netoffice on it.

Joao




 > DrSlump wrote:
 >
 > Before starting to code I think we all should agree on the technical 
 > requeriments for version 3.
 > I"ve put here the requeriments I"ve think about and my preferences,
please 
 > give your opinion.
 >
 > - PHP4 or PHP5
 >  I vote for PHP5 given its feature base: exceptions, SPL, XML, Object 
 > Oriented programming ...
 
 Ok ok, but please help me when I get stuck installing it and trying to get 
 it to work with redhat enterprise  ;-)
 
 > - MySQL 3.x or MySQL 4.x
 >  I would go for the 4.x version, it"s been the stable branch for quite 
 > some time and it offers some improvements over the 3.x branch. Specially 
 > to perform complex queries like when doing reports.
 > However, it"ll be quite nice if we could keep the system compatible with 
 > SQLite. For small teams this can be an extremely good solution, using a 
 > light http server and sqlite, the whole system and needed applications
can 
 > be less than 2Mb.
 
 If we abstract the db-interface side of things properly we should be able
to 
 keep it compatible.  Is there an open-source php abstraction class
available 
 that we can use?  I would prefer to use 4 because of it"s utf8 support.
 
 > - Operating System
 >  Linux, MacOsX and Windows should be supported in my opinion.
 
 Anyone here have access to MacOS?  I am developing it on Linux and don"t 
 have a windows server machine to try it on.
 
 Regards
 
 Dylan