Re: PHP scripting engine plugin v0.1

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the pointer to Quercus! - I didnt even realise there was a
Java implementation of PHP. 
I'm not sure if I would use it to write PHP scripts inside my Helma
apps, but its very cool how you've been able to integrate running php
scripts directly and pretty cleanly within Helma!
However I could see myself using Quercus as a way of running PHP apps
alongside Helma apps...

Also I notice you include the Resin.jar but in thier .war download, it
only seems to depend on resin-util.jar and script-10.jar which are much
smaller (643+27kb vs 8.9Mb) so perhaps you might be able to use that
instead for your package?

Maks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Ruthardt
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:58
> To: Helma User Mailing List; Helma Developer Mailing List
> Subject: [Helma-user] PHP scripting engine plugin v0.1
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I've been working on a PHP scripting engine plugin for Helma 
> 1.x during the last two weeks.
> Although not finished. complete, or completely tested yet, I 
> feel it is ready to be released to the public.
> A sample application is included.
> 
> The plugin is based on the Quercus PHP scripting engine [1] 
> by Caucho, which is part of the Resin [2] application server. 
> Caucho offers both a
> GPLv2 and a commercial pro version. So far, the plugin makes 
> use of the
> GPLv2 version only, which lacks Java bytecode compilation support. 
> Caucho claims, that the commercial pro version (which offers 
> Java bytecode compilation support is 4x faster than mod_php. 
> I did some small standalone (i.e. without Helma) tests, which 
> resulted in the pro version being at least twice as fast as 
> mod_php and sometimes even faster as compiled Rhino JS.
> 
> You can download the plugin from [3]. The release file is 
> meant as overlay over a Helma 1.x (I only tested it with 
> Helma 1.6.2) distribution. So to test it, simply extract a 
> new Helma distribution [4] file and extract the plugin 
> release file over it. The plugin release file contains three 
> new libraries (quercus.jar, resin.jar and warp.jar), a test 
> application (welcomePhp), an internal database for the test 
> application (db/welcomePhp), static files for the test 
> application and most important a simple script to start Helma 
> (start_with_php.sh).
> 
> IMPORTANT:
> For some reason (still need to find out why), the plugin only 
> works when you start Helma like the included script file does 
> it (i.e. it does not work, if you start Helma with the 
> original start.sh script file which starts Helma via the 
> launcher.jar).
> 
> About Warp:
> Just to have it mentioned: the php plugin is hosted at Sourceforge. 
> Warp, the project under which it is hosted, is a (my) fork of 
> Helma 1.x. 
> The intention of the fork is to rewrite and extend a 
> pluggable Helma 1.x from the inside (compared to Helma NG). 
> The fork allows me to do that in a flexible and permissive 
> way. No need to look at the SVN yet, the current version does 
> not differ from Helma (except being reformatted a little 
> bit). Although it will soon differ substantially, it will 
> always remain compatible to Helma 1.x (including future 
> versions, at least that is the main goal). Additionally I 
> will always provide functionality as Helma 1.x plugins (like 
> the php plugin) too, if possible (if it is possible to have 
> such functionality as Helma plugin). What was known as Warp 
> before (the Warp repository implementation) [5] will soon be 
> rewritten and included in Warp.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Daniel
> 
> [1] http://quercus.caucho.com/
> [2] http://caucho.com/resin/
> [3]
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235880&p
> ackage_id=287402
> [4] http://dev.helma.org/download/
> [5] http://dev.helma.org/wiki/Related+Projects/#Warp
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