asp2php converter

[harry]

Have you ever converted your ASP files to PHP using any ASP2PHP converters available in market?
Which was the best in result for you?
Can you recommend me any, whose results were robust.

[kev woodman]

I've not used any of these but I can think of a few reason to treat them with some caution:

* differences in OO support. If your program implements OO features like inheritance or polymorphism then these may not be supported, or be only partially implemented, in the language you are porting to. If the converter just replaces language constructs, such as keywords, with their equivalents then you might find your app broken;

* lack of support for certain features e.g. PHP has excellent array handling structures while ASP has really good controls; and

* nothing is ever that simple

If you already have the logic for your app in place then porting it to another language might be a good excuse to do some refactoring anyway. Of course if the application is pretty small/straightforward then you might find these work as promised.

[paul]

I fear such converter will likely to mess the whole code especially if you are converting a large code, obviously thereafter you will have to find out what's wrong and learn enough PHP to know how to fix it. PHP & ASP both are very different, and to get some things that are in ASP you will need add-ons to PHP, and vice-versa. IMO its worth to learn PHP to do it manually.

[harry]

That’s true kev-paul,
After referring some articles and forums, i have came at a point to start coding using PHP rather depending and making R&D on code from ASP2PHP converter, you guys also suggested for the same.
Anyway, I think some one will work on it and will come with a robust converter.

[sanderson]

Originally Posted by harry

Anyway, I think some one will work on it and will come with a robust converter.

You never know, that converter can get develope, (will take some time) through you too. Best wishes!