ISAPI with PHP on IIS

Can PHP work with ISAPI

[The Cricketer]

I'm looking at a specific potential web host who offer a windows package allowing the usage of asp and asp.net and also php4. They say they allow the use of ISAPI. I want to use php and still having the option of going to ASP in the future.

Am I correct in saying that ISAPI is the IIS equivalent of mod_rewrite etc and can it work on IIS directly with php?

Cheers
Cricketer

[edited by: The_Cricketer at 3:10 pm (utc) on July 21, 2004]

[txbakers]

ISAPI is just the generic wrapper for any IIS API. There are components for rewrite that use the ISAPI such as ISAPIRewrite.

[The Cricketer]

So if a web host says they have ISAPI on this package what does that mean/allow?

[bakedjake]

That they allow ISAPI modules to be installed on their servers, most likely.

[The Cricketer]

I asked the web host to find out if the ISAPI modules (which come with the package) allow urls to be rewritten from
http:/www.mysite.com/script.php?category_id=1
to
http:/www.mysite.com/script/cat_1/

They then told me that if I can find a free ISAPI module that I need adding to the account, provide the URL so that their engineers can see if it can be added.

Where can I find the module which I require to change php urls on IIS? Is [php.net...] the best place to go, if so where should I be looking?

Hope you can still help.