Re: *preliminary* PHP generator committed

rubys@us.ibm.com wrote: > > OK, I've committed to the cocoon-2 branch the beginnings of a PHP > generator. A suitably configured system will invoke the PHP binaries > through JNI and the output of the page will be processed through the > configured XML parser and placed into the pipeline for processing by such > filters as XSLT. > > This enables PHP developers to access the powers of Cocoon to separate > their content, style, and logic without requiring them to write a single > line of Java code. > > To build, one needs to first build PHP as a servlet. Then copy the > resulting phpsrvlt.jar into xml-cocoon-lib and build cocoon. Then copy > both phpsrvlt.jar and cocoon.jar into Tomcat's lib directory, and add the > php servlet DLL or shared library to your path/LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > > To configure, simply add the following to your configuration > > <generator name="php" > class="org.apache.cocoon.generators.PhpGenerator"/> > > ...and then use this generator in a process. > > This has been developed using JDK 1.2.2 on Win2K with Tomcat, but should > run on pretty much any OS supported by PHP and Java, any JDK 1.1 or better, > and any servlet 2.0 or better engine. You do need cocoon2 and PHP 4.0.1 > however, neither of which has been released. > > Warning: what I have committed has only been tested to the point where it > processes a simple "hello world" style page. An example of known problems > include error recovery - the default behavior of PHP is to insert an error > message into the output stream. While this default error message is valid > HTML, it is not well formed XML; the result being that instead of seeing > what you did wrong, you see a message about an unmatched <br> tag. > > I expect to evolve this quickly and have the code ready for prime time by > the O'Reilly Open Source conference in Monterey. Holy shit, dude, this is _AWESOME_!!! I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it..... :) -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. <stefano@apache.org> Friedrich Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------- Missed us in Orlando? Make it up with ApacheCON Europe in London! ------------------------- http://ApacheCon.Com ---------------------