On May 30, 11:24 am, digimotif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 24, 5:01 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > On May 25, 5:24 am, aspineux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 24 mai, 19:33, Szabolcs Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Is there a way I could code the base (core) code in Python and have > > > > > PHP call it? I've really liked using SQLAlchemy and there are other > > > > > * quick and dirty solution: > > > > in a shell: > > > > $ python yourscript.py <pipe_in >pipe_out > > > > in the php script: > > > > fwrite(pipe_in, input_data); > > > > results = fread(pipe_out, sizeof_results); > > > > > * simple and nice solution: > > > > do not ever use php > > > > Write a CGI wrapper around your python script, and publish it > > > usingmod_python. > > > And make the appropriate http requests from PHP. > > > You do not needmod_pythonto host CGI scripts written in Python, they > > are two separate things. > > > Depending on the complexity of what you are doing, you might be better > > off writing a backend server in Python that incorporates an XML-RPC > > server. Your PHP script can then use XML-RPC client to communicate to > > the backend Python server to do the real work. Over time you could > > even transition your web pages to being done in Python instead. In > > doing this your back end Python server doesn't have to change, you > > just make XML-RPC calls from the Python code for the web pages in > > place of where you would be doing it with PHP initially. You also > > wouldn't be restricted to web based front ends, you could also use GUI > > based front end as well. > > > Graham > > This sounds more like the direction I should go. Is XML-RPC the only > technology allowing this sort of setup? If I understand correctly, it > would basically mean going to a three tiered application approach. > I'd have the database, the python xml-rpc server, and the gui/web > interfaces. I'd also want to make sure I'm implementing technology > that will scale well.
There is also Pyro, but by using that you limit yourself to Python clients as far as I know whereas XML-RPC has clients for lots of different languages. Other more complicated options are Corba and SOAP frameworks. Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
