PHP Application Server

I like the way php works now, but I feel that there are times when it might benefit to have an application server dedicated to php. One example is extensibility. Adding extensions to PHP can get harry, especially if you are working with multiple servers and you want to stay up to date with the latest and greatest. Many times this means reconfigurations and compilations. I think that some people might actually like being able to make this painless. I don't know about you, but I rather code than reconfigure something. We could easily leave this up to the sys admin's, but many times, we are the sys admin's or the sys admin's don't want to do it. I can go on, but I really believe that there is a benefit. Java Servlets/JSP allow you to add a jar file into a directory called "lib". This allows you to extend your application/server with Java code packaged up nicely into zip-like files. You just package em up and dump them into that directory. That's what I am talking about. Being able to extend the server easily and painlessly (Although there will always be problems). If we could have something similar in PHP, I think alot of people would think that that would be cool. Dumping an extensions into a directory and modifying a configuration file to load it on startup (or something similar) could benefit some of us. I know how to configure/make/make install, but sometimes, there is a need for something more so you can focus on the higher level stuff. Check out JRuns or ColdFusionMX's web gui's for example. They let you configure all sorts of stuff through it. I don't mean dump the way we do things now, just extend it so that it might serve a different purpose for enterprise applications. I know that this can be debated, but I think it would be cool to have an extra option like this out there. Jimmy Brake <jimmy@dwalliance.com> wrote: one of the cool things about php is that you do not need a dedicated application server or servers you just need php+apache and it will outperform most application servers we presently have 7 to 8 php+apache servers that pull data from up to 7 different DB's(oracle and mysql) simultaneously serving up everything from CRM apps to content management to job boards -- we have one server in front that round robins all the connections -- all our apps are built to NEVER write anything to the file system and to write all data to the DB's -- so that eliminates the problem of temp files being on one host and not the next host jimmy asp provider On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 15:44, Edgar Castanedo wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I know that this is going to be a huge task, but I am hoping that > together with the nature of the Open Source community, we can build an app server which is > comparable, if not better than one of the commercial app servers on the commercial markets. I'd > really like to hear anyone else's feedback. Thanks for yours Manuel. > > BTW... a standalone daemon is exactly what I have in mind. I am in the process of creating the > website for the project. I will have all of the info there. I'll post the link when it is up. > > > > Edgar Castanedo ecastanedo@yahoo.com > http://www.geocities.com/ecastanedo/ > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now Edgar Castanedo ecastanedo@yahoo.com http://www.geocities.com/ecastanedo/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now