Converting Web Pages from ASP to PHP

January 01, 05 by kenrich

Currently, I am working on a script that will convert an ASP web script into a PHP script. My company is seriously considering moving all of our servers to a Unix environment. While we could just go out and buy an ASP processor for Unix (like Sun’s), I think it would be better to use PHP since it is a much more powerful scripting language.

So I have started writing a script that will do some intelligent search-and-replace using regular expressions. Right now I have about 100 regular expressions written and it is quite slow in processing a single script. I really should have used a parsing tool such as Lex and Yacc to do an efficient processing of the source script.

I chose a script instead because I am more familiar with that and it eliminates the time-consuming process of writing conversion routines in C. Right now it seems like I will never be able to get this thing perfected 100%, but 99% would be really good right now. This could be a very useful tool that I might be able to sell to .other web site developers.

  • Date Saturday, 01 Jan 05 at 9:12 am
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