[Tutor] PHP & Python suggestions....

[Eric Brunson]

Michael Langford wrote:
> OT Aside:
> Anyone ever used PSP pages? Seems like a good substitute for PHPish
> tasks, but I've not seen many users.
>   

I have, but I find generating my HTML with classes I wrote to be more to 
my tastes.  I did PHP for years and I'm just not a fan of the way it 
mixes code and HTML.  I think that model works better when  you have 
someone doing the layout and someone else doing the server side code.

> As to the actual question, PHP can call python through a variety of
> means. One such one I'm familiar with is XMLRPC.
>
> PHP:
> http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/
>
> Python:
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-pyth10.html (servers at
> the bottom).
>
> XMLRPC can be slooooooooooooow. Make sure its fast enough for what
> you're doing by running a benchmark. But if it is fast enough, the
> python libraries at least are quite magically simple as far as cross
> language programming can be.
>
>         --Michael
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> On Feb 4, 2008 10:43 AM, Chris Fuller <cfuller084 at thinkingplanet.net> wrote:
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>> On Sunday 03 February 2008 17:35, GTXY20 wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> First off let me say how helpful and informative this mailing list is. It
>>> is very much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I am looking for some suggestions for reading up on how to call
>>> Python from PHP scripts, specifically calling from a PHP web application -
>>> PHP will call python script with some arguments and python will run on the
>>> server and return the results within another PHP page.
>>>
>>> Once again thanks.
>>>
>>> GTXY20.
>>>       
>> You can also use python in server-side scripting, at least with apache and
>> mod_python.  You can use it the same way as PHP.  This might not be suitable
>> for what you need to do, but if you could do it this way, it would probably
>> be faster.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Chris Fuller
>>
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