Check out http://www.tudbc.org which gives you easy and consistent database access to ADO.NET in native PHP language (no more juggling with .NET issues). In fact, it even works the same for any flavor of PHP (Phalanger, Quercus, and original PHP), any flavor of Ruby (IronRuby, JRuby, and original Ruby), Java, C#, F#, J#, VB.NET, C++/CLI and more to come. Supported DBMSes include Access, DB2, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Visual FoxPro, etc., and different data stores, such as CSV text files and Excel spreadsheets.

Well I must say I'm a bit dissapointed with the status and progress on Phalanger. I've tried to help out by doing some local changes to fix various bugs and also to begin use of PHP5 (php5ts) extensions with Phalanger (still some compatibility issues, but at least they work). However, it seems there is no activity on this page. I've tried emailing Tomas and other developers, and have received no response. Without being added as a developer, I can't check-in the changes. Also, without being able to talk to the other developers, I'm unable to find out the status of things so I'm better informed. Perhaps in the future things will be "more together", but for now it looks like i'll have to (sadly) give up on Phalanger. Best of luck.

It seems that although PHP5 language constructs are supported, PHP5 extensions are not. It seems that the extensions provided are from PHP4, and that there is still a good amount of work to be done to get the PHP5 extensions working. I see phalanger as an excellent library for porting a PHP website into ASPX - for those of you who have developed a website in both PHP and ASPX, you'll know that the templating and backend ability of ASPX makes it far easier and faster to build a website quickly. Add on to that the fact that Phalanger gives the power of some powerful .NET features such as attributes - it doesn't get any easier to create data which has a database representation, a forms representation, and a data (in-memory) representation than with .NET attributes. This is actually how I came about Phalanger: I was looking for the ability to add attribute functionality to PHP. I really hope that the work on Phalanger continues - it seems that it goes fullstrength for a while, then dies out for a bit, then full strength again. I hope it continues to develop into the powerful library it can be. If you guys ever need any help, let me know - I'd be glad to help any way that I can. I really wanted to get Yuniti ( http://www.yuniti.com ) running with Phalanger, but unfortunately without support for PHP5TS, I'm somewhat dead in the water.

I'd like to see source codes of this benchmarks!?

What are the axes on this graph? It's pretty hard to tell what this thing is saying without the Y-axis being labeled in some way.

Are there methods to debug PHP (i.e. via VSIntegrations), if so, can you please add a tutorial on process of debugging PHP code?

This is pretty cool. I built a really simple Winforms app and posted it here http://mschray.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9B3D7B460D023307!372.entry?_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart#permalink

Do you guys have a lib for connecting to SQL Server 2005 all versions? Id like to use 2005 as a backend for SQL 2000 supproted applications.

This really ROCKS. I got the latest version of phpbb to compile in minutes on ASP.NET 2.0. You guys deserve more credit for making an amazing framework. I plan to use php.net apps side by side with Rainbow Portal, an application I admin for the .NET 2.0 Framework. Please keep in touch : ramseur[at]gmail[dot]com regards, Eric Ramseur Rainbow Portal 2.0 Project Admin

Is it possible to compress a folder and its subfolders.