RE: PHP

His controllers build java objects which become the model to be hand off
to the view layer.  How would you hand java objects to php pages?  Any
MVC webapp framework will have this problem.  You could serialize out
the java objects to the filesystem as XML and read that into the PHP
pages, but that is a colossal hack.

 

You could use Ambivalence to rebuild the business logic in PHP, or you
can rewrite your PHP templates as JSP (or Velocity), but either way you
probably need to change something.  These technologies are more or less
immiscible at the level of granularity you are looking for.

 

3jeff

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee McColl
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:21 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Mav-user] PHP

 

Hi all,

 

I've recently teamed up with an applications developer to offer my web
development skills and am currently picking apart his software.  He
currently has a nifty Java based server app which displays information
through Maverick and Velocity.  I believe there are lines in his
Maverick Web.xml that read -

 

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>velocityViewer</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>net.nt.frontend.servlets.VelocityViewer</servlet-class>
  <load-on-startup>10</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>

 

It is these lines that I am assuming allow his Java server app to send
properties and results to his Velocity pages.

 

Anyway, what I want to do, if it is at all possible, is to change his
system so that it sends the information to and through PHP pages.  I'm
happy to continue using Maverick if I can, but seeing as the system I
built that bolts onto his software uses PHP, I would like to exchange
all the .vm pages to also use the same PHP classes.  Make sense?  (I
babble).

 

How can I do this?  And if it's not possible with Maverick, what system
can I use?

 

I originally thought Ambivalence was made for this, but having read the
manual for it, it now seems more like a PHP templating system to
seperate PHP code from the presentation, much like Maverick seperates
Java from presentation.... But I've already built the PHP templating
system using other means.

 

Please please help,

 

Lee