RE: [PHP] PHP & Java, calling a static method

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 14:44, Chris McCluskey wrote: > Ah ha!! Ok, I thought you would be re-writing everything in PHP. Which > would work out perfectly. By what you have said I would guess that if > you can't call it as > $myObject = new Java( "Object.staticMethod()" ); > you might be SOL. And I'm guessing you've tried: > $myObject = new Java( "Object" ); > $myObject->staticMethod(); > right? That would be my next best guess. Nothing works. :( I do have a workaround, it just means exposing the database a little more than I wanted to. I may rewrite the Java layer to work better with PHP. But I don't think this is an unreasonable request, it just sounds like something whoever wrote the Java extension didn't have a need for. So where are they hiding so I can talk to them? > Personally, I've kept my java work with my java work and my php work > with my php work. If you have a lot of code already in java you might > want to look into JSP/J2EE if you haven't already. I'm a Java programmer first, Servlets/JSP/Struts, the whole nine yards on the server side. There is a Java API to my database (IBM's UniData) and I've written a data access layer in Java. Now I have a need to access the database from a website that's all PHP. So... I can't write the Java classes in PHP, and I can't drag the website over to Java. The database also has a C API, and I'm now wondering if that might not be a better way in rather than going through Java. Or is it six of one, half dozen of the other? Thanks again for your response! -- Wendy Smoak Chandler, AZ