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I'm currently interning at a local startup computing solution company.  My main task is to get the online store up and running.  The website is hosted by GoDaddy.com, and is apparently on a Windows server.  Since I don't know ASP, I need to make the store using PHP and MySQL.  I was able to create the database without any problems through GoDaddy's rather well hidden control panel (they apparently hid it so the technically unaware couldn't screw things up), but I'm wondering if I'll run into problems using PHP in conjunction with the database because it's on a Windows server.  Are there any major pitfalls I should be aware of?  Unfortunately, I'm not sure what version of PHP GoDaddy uses -- they don't make that info publically available, from what I've been able to see.

Thanks in advance. :)
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PHP can run on virtually any operating system in existence. For finding out the php version just create a new file called info.php and add the following code to it:
[code=php:0]<?php

phpinfo();

?>[/code]

Now run the file in the browser (http://my-domain.con/info.php) and it should display information about PHPs setup and Server information.

Also PHP supports many different databases including MySQL. Go to php.net for more information.
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IMO Godaddy sucks as a hosting company..
It' great for a place to manage domains though

if it's an option to change hosting companies I'd consider that
look at
http://bluehost.com or
http://webhostfreaks.com or
http://webcinch.com

godaddy has this weird idea of forcing users to share the same mysql server or something to that matter..or at least that's the idea I got from my experience with it.

I couldn't name my databases what I wanted...they kept giving me errors saying that name is already taken....blah
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