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0 pointsskrebbel13y ago0 comments

I've never experienced this. I've spent years of my life developing on PHP on Windows (and mostly, but not only, deploying on Linux). I've never got the impression that Windows is 2nd class like it is for Python.

It comes with well working Apache and IIS bindings by default; the Windows package contains a large number of compiled extensions; a fair set of Windows-specific extensions are enabled by default (including support for COM and .NET interfacing, for instance); command-line PHP (for e.g. Composer or Symfony) works just fine; most if not all posix-ish builtin functions have good Windows implementations.

Also, the built-in HTTP server that was added in PHP 5.4 works just fine on Windows. Really, I have no idea what you're talking about.

That said, I've never looked into whether PHP is as performant or secure on Windows.

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jiggy201113y ago· 2 in thread

I suppose it depends on which subset of functions you are using.

I developed a PHP app on Windows which did mailsending, push notifications (APE) and UTF8 encoding. All of these things behaved differently between operating systems.

skrebbelOP13y ago

Mail sending? Hmm, curious. Sure, there's STMP-settings in php.ini vs sendmail, but that can't be a show stopper, right? Also, PEAR::Mail did the rest for me, back in the days. I'm sure there's even better options these days.

I'm also curious how UTF8 was different. After all, since PHP arrays are simply binary arrays, how can it be different?

roel_v13y ago

"behave differently between operating systems" != "Windows is not as well supported"

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