Re: Designing Java applets to work with PHP server scripts

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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Date:

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:46:34 -0400

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On 7/26/2012 4:25 AM, Nigel Wade wrote:

On 25/07/12 16:26, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 7/25/2012 11:20 AM, Nigel Wade wrote:

On 25/07/12 16:17, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 7/25/2012 4:48 AM, Nigel Wade wrote:

On 24/07/12 20:51, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

But in the context of "Java applet to work with PHP" it is a pretty
good
fit.

I would think CGI is a far more common fit than web service.

I can not see where CGI fits in.

Running PHP via CGI instead of FastCGI or Apache module is
not related to applets.

What?

I don't understand where CGI comes in.

We know we have applet and PHP.

Where does CGI get involved?

If you use the applet to communicate with a CGI PHP script.

I still don't get it.

CGI is a protocol used between web servers and scripts/scriptengines.

You can do:

applet----(HTTP)----web server----(CGI)----PHP

or:

applet----(HTTP)----web server----(something else than CGI)----PHP

But whether PHP is integrated via CGI or FastCGI or Apache module
(in process call) does not impact how the PHP code looks and not
how the Java applet code look like - it is purely a server
configuration issue.

I don't think the original poster is asking on how to integrated PHP
with his web server.

Arne