RE: [PHP-DEV] RE: [PHP4BETA] Small footprint PHP

> -----Original Message----- > From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:mlemos@acm.org] > Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 04:46 PM > To: Samuel Liddicott > Cc: php3@lists.php.net; php4beta@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [PHP4BETA] Small footprint PHP > > > Hello Samuel, > > On 14-Dec-99 11:38:08, you wrote: > > >> A WAP/WML based interface would be ideal because that is the current > >> standard that is solidifying for handheld based applications. To > >> make that > >> work offline there must be a Web like server that may run in > the handheld > >> so that using a WAP browser the user may interface with the necessary > >> applications regardless of the type of handheld device. > > >I don't think there is ANY chance of a WAP server in many handhelds. The > > Forget all hand-helds. Think just of Palm Pilots which are > already comming > with 4MB of RAM and you can already seen a significant market. > > Anyway, if is there already lite versions of IBM DB2 and Oracle 8, why not > a Web server too which can be is much simpler? > > > >best I think we can hope for is some local persistant storage > and then make > >use of the cut-down JavaScript that WAP provides to queue up requests to > >send later. > > I can't see where you may queue requests with Javascript. Only the > upcomming version of WAP spec will support cookies. Thats why I said "some local persistant storage" > >Otherwise, work live. > > That's what we do today but that costs money to be online and sometimes it > is not possible at all. But with WAP? Hmm, maybe - I was thinking of WAP in the Nokia 7110 which supports sort of "extra" layer of comms for the WAP. > >I see PHP being used more, but still at server end. Getting > into different > >PHP versions accross some non-upgradable handhelds will be a > nightmare for > >developers, and make it hard to use. > > I don't see why not. PHP is purely C code. It could well be > built for the > Palm Pilot as long as some POSIX calls are replaced by something more > portable. Palm pilot maybe, but I'm saying in non-(or hard to) upgradable handhelds will results in a wide range of php versions. For server side code, the administrator can update php when requried. I think this will not happen so often in the consumer market. Sam