User Sessions and extensions..

Guys,
Has any one messed with using vb on php4 system. The web site that I am setting up needs to have a global login. I am trying to figure out what are the benifit and consequences of modifing VB to support sessions.

Things that I see are:
good:
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1. Fix problem with the post issue and admin options.
2. A bit better security and global consistancy with user on a large website.

bad:
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- Possibly unsupported.
- php 3.x not supported.

What is your comments on it this?

Also, I am was evaluating the another bb system, http://www.phorum.org and it was pretty decent. However it had one feature that I liked. I allowed you to change the file extensions to something else. For example, i want to used the .htm extension for php processing instead of .php. Has anyone done this as well, or is it supported.

P.S PHP4 is now a final release.

Regards,
phiran

Phiran,
I'm running PHP 4 RC2 on a dedicated NT box under IIS right now and I don't have a problem unless I try to run PHP as an ISAPI module.
I see they have better support for ISAPI in the full release so I'm hoping I can set it up properly under NT and have a forum that really flies

There are people who are running it under PHP 3.x right now with no problems. Some of them had to change the file extensions to PHP3 but it runs fine for them. So, in answer to your question, yes, you can change the file extensions.

What problem is this that you refer to:

Fix problem with the post issue and admin options.

You can do a complete search and replace of all the files before you upload and install / upgrade to replace .php with .whatever . I would recommend using Textpad to do that ( http://www.textpad.com/ )

The number of servers with PHP4 installed is considerably less than PHP3, so we will be maintaining PHP3 compatability for a while yet.

John