Re: PHP as an Application Server

bjoern@baer.main.de wrote: > * Sean R. Bright wrote: >> I am not bringing this up for discussion as I know alot of the group is >> against it, I am just wondering if anyone would be interested in a seperate >> project to get PHP to run as an Application Server. > > [1]: first step IMHO would be definining "PHP AppServer", > e.g. what features (crypting data between AppServer and > web server and so on) are necessary and how other languages > (Java, Zope, ...) define their "AppServer". you could create this "application server" and define a new protocol for transferring the information, etc. or you could just use http (with ssl?) and apache as a backend "application server" with almost any web server on the front-end. (mod_backend for apache is a particularly good way to handle coupling multiple frontends to multiple "application servers".) sure, it isn't necessarily buzzword-compliant, but it already exists, and uses proven protocols and tools. jim