Yesterday, I finally got some SCA PHP examples running. Be honest, it really was more complicated than what I expected, and here is some experience.
The first thing to do was to get a copy of the PHP source, and also SDO_SCA source from the BUZZARD branch. It was easily done by issuing commands as described in [3]. but the command I used for checking out sdo_sca was slightly different from Simon's page above: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/repository checkout -r BUZZARD / pecl/sdo Before starting building php source, be sure you have everything you need. Here, you have to carefully read the section called "Putting it all together" in [2], there is some extra steps if you don't have cygwin. Also, you have built all needed libraries. I wasn't sure which one or ones I needed, but the compiler kept prompting error messages. So I decide to go get all the three libraries Simon had mentioned above. libxml2 and libcurl can be easily found, just follow the link "download area" from referenced page [5]. Note that you may have to copy libxml2.dll file, which can be in the libxml2-x.x.x.win32\bin directory, into libxml2-x.x.x.win32\lib directory, otherwise during the build process, you will get an error message "unresolved external symbol _xmlDllMain referenced in ......" If you need libcurl, google it. If you want to make life easier, download the packages with the same prefix name as Simon used. For example I found out that if I was using libxml2-2.6.26.threads.zip, libxml2.dll would be there, in the lib directory as it was expected. Then, everything is ready for building sdo_sca and php source. I built them together in one go, because I thought it was not necessary to build php first and then sdo_sca, also the complier didn't let me to build php source without those libraries in default configuration. Before configuring, you have to make sure all environment variables is set correctly, (e.g. the system can find you complier (including bison and flex) somewhere in your path list). I used similar configure line as Simon. I suggest you to write you a batch file for setting the environment and issuing the configure line, it'll save you time when the next time you want to build it again. Finally, time to try out some examples. If something goes wrong, or even you are not sure what the expected results looks like, you can always check out the error logs of your application server. For apache server error.log can be found in the directory named "logs" under the directory where you apache server is installed. The following problems were encountered: 1. The examples must be run from correct directories. I thought i just needed SCA examples, so I copied those SCA examples directly into htdocs (my apache web-root directory). That didn't work, I checked error log and realised that some examples can be only run from its original directory (i.e. //localhost/examples/SCA/...) 2. Don't forget to add curl extension. If you are using downloaded php binary, in the default php.ini, there is a line " ; extension=php_curl.dll "which is commented out. All you have to do is to delete the semi-colon in front. also the same for php_soap.dll, you'll need that as well . 3. when I was trying the json-rpc example, and getting "No valid @binding annotation could be found for 'WebService.php' ". I remembered from somewhere I had been noticed about renaming binding.ws to binding.soap. There were two occurrences in example files where still using binding.ws ( line 60 in MailApplicationService.php, and line 27 in WebService.php), after I replaced them with binding.soap, it works. That's it, by doing this, I think I've really learnt something. I also looked SCA source code in a bit more details which gave me a better understanding of how it works. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "phpsoa" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/phpsoa?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
