adding support for PHP to a web server

16 years ago by Terry Braun — view source

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Hello,
I've written a small web server and I'd like to add support for php to
the server. Could anyone direct me to documentation or examples and give
me some sense of how hard this would be. Put another way, if I have a
working PHP installation and a web server how do the two communicate?

The webserver is written in javascript running on rhino which in turn
runs on java so probably the access would be through java.

Thanks
Terry

16 years ago by Alexey Zakhlestin — view source

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Hello,
I've written a small web server and I'd like to add support for php to the
server. Could anyone direct me to documentation or examples and give me some
sense of how hard this would be. Put another way, if I have a working PHP
installation and a web server how do the two communicate?

The webserver is written in javascript running on rhino which in turn runs
on java so probably the access would be through java.

The most simple way is to use cgi or fastcgi protocol. I think, there
should be some java-libraries implementing that

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Alexey Zakhlestin
http://www.milkfarmsoft.com/

16 years ago by Kalle Sommer Nielsen — view source

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Hello

2009/2/5 Terry Braun tab@talking.com:

Hello,
I've written a small web server and I'd like to add support for php to the
server. Could anyone direct me to documentation or examples and give me some
sense of how hard this would be. Put another way, if I have a working PHP
installation and a web server how do the two communicate?

Currently theres no SAPI documentation, however like Alexey said it
would probably be easier to just the cgi/fastcgi protocol.

The webserver is written in javascript running on rhino which in turn runs
on java so probably the access would be through java.

Thanks
Terry

--
Kalle Sommer Nielsen

16 years ago by johannes@schlueters.de — view source

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Hi,

Currently theres no SAPI documentation, however like Alexey said it
would probably be easier to just the cgi/fastcgi protocol.

There's a chapter in Sara's book. sapi/embed is a quite simple example
of an SAPI. But I agree (Fast)GI sounds like a saner way,else you'd have
to provide some C wrapper giving you some APIs you can use from your
Java code. Directly using PHP APIs via JNI doesn't really sound like
fun.

johannes

16 years ago by Stefan Marr — view source

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Hi,

just a suggestion, have you thought about using Quercus [http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/quercus/
]
or Project Zero [http://www.projectzero.org/download/]?

This projects are implementing PHP in Java.

Regards
Stefan

Hello,
I've written a small web server and I'd like to add support for php
to the server. Could anyone direct me to documentation or examples
and give me some sense of how hard this would be. Put another way,
if I have a working PHP installation and a web server how do the two
communicate?

The webserver is written in javascript running on rhino which in
turn runs on java so probably the access would be through java.

Thanks
Terry

16 years ago by Andrew Rose — view source

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2009/2/5 Terry Braun tab@talking.com:

Thanks to everyone for the help. One last hopefully quick and not too naive
question - can I just exec php and pipe input and output? There is probably
some good reason that is not obvious to me.
terry

Some reasons would be:

limited $_SERVER environment
No $_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST or $_COOKIE
headers() will be of no use
sessions would be a challenge to implement (because there is no
access to headers for cookies)

Andrew Rose
http://andrew-rose.blogspot.com

16 years ago by johannes@schlueters.de — view source

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Thanks to everyone for the help. One last hopefully quick and not too
naive question - can I just exec php and pipe input and output? There is
probably some good reason that is not obvious to me.
terry

that's basically what CGI does, while the CGI standard defines some
environmental variables you should set (lie QUERY_STRING which will be
parsed into PHP's $_GET array) See http://www.w3.org/CGI/

johannes

16 years ago by Stanislav Malyshev — view source

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Hi!

naive question - can I just exec php and pipe input and output? There is
probably some good reason that is not obvious to me.

The good reasons for using FCGI are:

environment passing
headers handling
POST passing
stderr handling
performance - creating new process is very expensive
structure - people already thought about a bunch of things when
creating this protocol that may not be obvious at first
wide support - a lot of FCGI implementations exist, both server and client

There's also SCGI which is much simpler than FCGI but no official PHP
driver for it yet (it's really so simple you could probably implement it
in PHP too, but lose some of the advantages).

Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/
(408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com

adding support for PHP to a web server

There's also SCGI which is much simpler than FCGI but no official PHP driver for it yet (it's really so simple you could probably implement it in PHP too, but lose some of the advantages).

There's also SCGI which is much simpler than FCGI but no official PHP
driver for it yet (it's really so simple you could probably implement it
in PHP too, but lose some of the advantages).