Thanks for yr comments Milan Babuskov.

With regards,
Bala

--- In firebird-php@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...> wrote:
>
> Myles Wakeham wrote:
> > Using DLLs immediately assumes you can only deploy this on Windows.
>
> What makes you say this? You can do the same thing on Linux, the only
> difference is that file extension is not DLL but SO.
>
> > just wondering why you didn't choose to develop this as a CGI rather
> > than PHP considering that you are constraining the solution only to
> > Windows and that you don't want to give out the source code here. A CGI
> > solution for this might be a far better fit than a PHP open source approach.
>
> I agree. I really seems that more straightforward way would be to go
> with Java or C/C++ application compiled into executable. Obfuscating or
> protecting PHP code in some way just smells like wrong tool has been
> picked for the job.
>
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> Milan Babuskov
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