Has anyone successfully managed to get PHP workingwith Orion? Their is some
mention of "com.evermind.server.http.CGIServlet", but that doesn't seem to
come with the Orion package, and the evermind site is in German - or
something - and I can't find the classes. (I only speak english!:p)
The CGI Servlet is a wrapper to a fork a native CGI. If you install PHP as
a CGI and ensure the php executable is in your PATH before starting orion,
it should work.
Briefly, Orion has the following Servlet called php setup:
servlet auto-reload="false"
servlet-namephp/servlet-name
servlet-classcom.evermind.server.http.CGIServlet/servlet-class
init-param
param-nameinterpreter/param-name
param-valuephp/param-value
/init-param
/servlet
This calls the CGIServlet telling it to use 'php' as the interpreter for
the page. This param-value can easily be switched for any other
interpreter such as Python, Perl, Bash, Cold-Fusion, Q-Basic(!) etc. If the
executable is not in the PATH environment variable, use the full path to
the interpreter in the param-value.
A mapping is then set to map all files that end in .php to the php servlet.
servlet-mapping
servlet-namephp/servlet-name
url-pattern/*.php/url-pattern
/servlet-mapping
That's it really.
On another note, the PHP4 beta's 3 and 4 contain some Java mappings which
allow java objects to be used directly in php. On top of that, a servlet
wrapper has evolved allowing PHP to be invoked from a servlet without
having to start a new process each time and have persistent resources (such
as db connections and session variables) - greatly improving performance.
Have a look in /ext/java/ and /sapi/servlet/ of the PHP distribution for
information on this.
-Joe Walnes
