PHP not supported, Alternative for Mac?

[mekohler]

Hi, I've been trying to connect to a remote SQL database using PHP on a mac notebook using OSX. I received an email from my hosing company and they say that PHP in not supported in their hosting plans. Is there an alternative for OSX, I don't want to install windows on my computer.
Thanks,
Michael

 

[AlexCuse]

What exactly are you trying to do here? Do you want something to run on your mac locally, or is it a website you want to connect to the database?

If a website, think you should be more concerned with what OS is installed on your webserver than what is installed on your mac. Microsoft options could include ASP or ASP.net, and I don't know much about any other non-PHP server-side scripting languages. Did your web host say what they *DO* support, or just tell you that PHP is out of the question?

If you need something on your mac to allow you to just connect and browse your database, I suppose you could write something in Java?

Hope this helps,

Alex


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[mekohler]

Thanks for the reply, I have a project where the client wants me to create a database to store a community directory. I was trying to connect to a remote sql database on a remote server. Now that you mention it, they stated that PHP is not supported, I guess I misunderstood that to mean that PHP is out of the question.
Mike

 

[AlexCuse]

Well, if php is not supported I would think its' out of the question ;-)

But, you still have not answered the question of whether this is going to be a website or a desktop application.

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[mekohler]

Its going to be a web site.

 

[LawnBoy]

In a word, PERL (what PHP was derived from). PERL does it all.


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