Hi,

our current website is a ASP MS SQL based website. We used to use perl UBB forums which we had to take down because of problems.

I was planning on going for "Invision Power Board" with "Microsoft SQL 2000 Database Driver" since I haven't come across a ASP based forums which offer paid support and has the features of "Invision Power Board".

Is it a bad idea to go for PHP based forums when the website is based on ASP?

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Not at all.

Most ASP hosts will support PHP. They really wont effect each other unless you try and use them both on one page.

Originally posted by VolkNet
Not at all.

Most ASP hosts will support PHP. They really wont effect each other unless you try and use them both on one page. what VolkNet's saying seems to make sense in my pea size brain cause THEN T2W2O web applications wouldnt be trying to access the same database messing up data and fun stuff

thanks for the replies.

Our new host supports both PHP and ASP but only has MS SQL DB. My We currently do not need the forums integrated with the website. But my concern is what in the future if the need arises.

Does anyone know of any good ASP forums which has paid support?

Any feedback?

thanks.

there is no advantage in going with PHP in IIS isnt it? Did you try ComminityServer? (ASP.NET) iam not sure they have paid support or not. But its pretty popular.

Thanks for the reply. community server is good. It is more expensive than the PHP based solution.

Can ASP.Net and ASP pages share session cause in this case I would like to have one single login page for the entire website and would like to integrate it with our website?

ASP.NET and ASP cannot share sessions normally. But there are other solutions like dot net bridge http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/AspAspNetSessionBridge.asp