I want to develop a website in php using databas MySQL because hosting this way is very cheap. The prblem is that if my php page is hosted on some server running operating system other than windows e.g. Linux then my php page might not be able to call and windows's dll function as .exe files of windows also don't run on Linux. So can any body help me solve this problem. Is there anyway that I can call windows dll function from php where php page is hosted in Linux server.

Please also tell me how much reliable is MySQL database, does it crash, can it serve hundreds of transactin/minute as efficiently as Oracle. Can the database of MySQL be divided into multiple servers like Oracle.

Hi, facing a similar problem (dll on linux/php). Had any luck with that?

Cheers.