PHP-Tuxedo Open Source Project

Open Source Project Announcement... I have started an open source project to build a module for PHP4 that will allow direct calls to Tuxedo services from the PHP script, the project name is php-tuxedo. Think about it for a second... The ability from inside a PHP web page to directly call already existing Tuxedo services anywhere in your environment. Just like PHP can open a database connection to Oracle or Sybase, it would open a Tuxedo connection as a Tux client to a Tuxedo middleware environment. For those who have used PHP, you know how easy it is to build dynamic web pages. But those pages are mostly limited to database queries or flat file access for data. With this project you could call all your existing enterprise Tuxedo services directly. I believe this would be a very powerful enhancement to PHP's capabilities. To those familiar with Tuxedo, you know about how powerful an implementation of Tux middleware services can be for departmental and enterprise solutions. I want to bring these two pieces together. Project status. The project is in its early infancy, but some parts are functional. I have successfully built a client page that uses a STRING buffer to call a service with tpcall and returns a STRING buffer back. Primitive? Sure, but this is only the start. I have ideas of how to implement many other functions and buffer types including FMLs. There is much work to do, but if you are interested please check out http://php-tuxedo.sourceforge.net. There you can download my first cut and more importantly follow the project as it progresses. For the really ambitious I would welcome any testing or development help on the project. Please note I'm posting this note to several lists I don't normally monitor, so I may not see a reply on the list. Hope to hear from you. Brian Foddy bfoddy@users.sourceforge.net