Re: Re: cvs: php4 / TODO

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: > SOAP support seems like a good start for this; I think so, too. Johann-Peter Hartmann and Thomas Fromm today pointed me to some SOAP related information and it sounds promising to me. > I believe we already have xml-rpc, right? In PEAR we have XML::RPC, but I haven't tested it so far. But it looks somewhat confusing to me and it appears to be a quick hack to PEARify the original PHP implementation of XMLRPC. I believe one could make the code much leaner and nicer :-) Maybe that one'll be me, if I find the time. > Also, the corba client support (satellite extension) is a good > start for the client end; letting php be the server side would be another > step. As I said, the basis is there, but we need to build on it. > > - permanentely running PHP Application, that's not (entirely) > > http-request driven > > Sounds like something that you could do with the php cgi (command line > version), disabling max_execution_time, and an event loop, though > maybe additional capabilities are needed as well. Bernd Römer is currently building an Application Server framework in native PHP but native support would be better somewhat, I believe. > Things like fail-over, etc? Yes, this topic was mentioned, but I don't know what it means. Sorry :( > It'd be good to get an idea of how this could work > at the app level - I'm not really sure what java app servers provide, so > I'm asking... I'm sorry, I cannot answer that question. I haven't used Java for web development purposes (neither client nor server) as of yet. > I recall Zeev at one point stating that the php3 scripting engine was > such a major upgrade from the php2 state of things that he couldn't see > the need for a major rewrite anytime soon. :-) PS: My best wishes to Andi, Zeev and all the other people at Zend in special, and to the people in Near East in general. I dearly hope that it doesn't come to a war and that a way for peace can be found. All the best, Sebastian -- <?php $a=explode(" " ,"119 130 128 129 45 110 123 124 129 117 114 127 45 ". "125 117 125 45 117 110 112 120 114 127");for($i=0;$i<sizeof($a);$i++)print chr($a[$i]-13); // http://sb.phpOpenTracker.de | mail: sbergmann@php.net ?>