ye olde host haveth no pee heych pee....!

bonjourno...

I have just spent the day writing a PHP application for a client's website... only to find that they are using an old host which doesnt support PHP....
I am not using a DB... simply the PHP code for validating login etc... (there is only one login name)
also using PHP to write pages to the server....

or I would be if they had PHP installed...

does anyone know how I can install it? and where?!
I'm gonna try asking the hosts... but I'd rather do it myself if I can?!

Cheers ears....

If you're talking about a hosting company, then you're at their mercy. You should send them an e-mail and see what they say... perhaps they're a Microsoft only hosting company and only support ASP/SQL Server, etc.

You could always sign up somewhere else for $11.95/month. Even this site's main page has ads for one. Switching companies may be worth in the long run....

Hi Matt,
We're hosted with modWest.com and they're fantastic. We had a problem with htaccess the other day and they literally replied in 5 minutes. Send them an email at support@modwest.com.... if you're after new hosting they are awesome.

hey,

Thanks for the responses... I have a providor which supports PHP and they are great... www.futurehosts.co.uk ... but it is my old one that is the problem.
I have two sites which need my WYSIWYG editor installed on them, and neither have PHP.
One might be able to have it installed... but the other is simply a free hosting option my client took (I think) ..

I was thinking that I could host the editor on my site, but how would I get access to updating the files on another site?
currently I tell the editor to updated the file in the directory below the editor...ie:

$fp = @fopen("$path$filename","w");

$path is set to "../" and the $filename is obviously the file which is being updated.

I have tried setting $path to "http://www.somename.com/htdocs/" then I thought it would update the file on the server... I set the folder to write / read (chmod 777) but i got loads of error messages....

any ideas?
cheers!

you can only read files on remote machines.. you could read, save, and then upload the file via ftp to the machine again.. or something.. can't think of any other way

thanks for all the help....

in the end I re-wrote the script in CGI....! I never thought I'd ever had to write that again! oh well!!

lol..