I am new to cordova and want to transfer my existing app build with jquery mobile and php to iOS/Android. Am I correct, that there is no php interpreter inside cordova? That would mean, that the existing app is not transfarable to cordova as php is a central component in building those html files inside the project. This would make it kind of useless for me.
Is there a way to run php code inside cordova?
You cannot use any server-side scripting language (ex: PHP) inside cordova. But using Jquery and AJAX you can call php functions and get data easily.
PHP runs on the server-side; Cordova packages your app into a client-side application.
If you really really want to use your PHP server-generated HTML, rather than static HTML in your client-side app, you can package in an almost empty HTML file, and dynamically fetch HTML from your PHP server, AJAX or otherwise.
In today's age, with AJAX and HTML5 apps, most people will tell you that the server's role should not be to generate HTML files; it should be to generate data (JSON) through APIs. If you switch to such an architecture, you'll find that there are much more tools you can use easily.
Actually, you could use Quercus in Java to feed HTTP parameters to a PHP interpreter, no IP port necessary (you can construct a HTTP-request-holding data object) and for IOS, something like https://github.com/grantjbutler/PHPTest.
There are other embeddable solutions for IOS, I may edit this answer further, in the near future.
Quick search yielded this result: quercus: php in java (open source, 100% java implementation of php) so it should be possible to write plugin that execute your php code, probably with little modification. And then expose it in window.Plugin.method() like other plugins do (like this one cordova-plugin-shell-exec).
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I have developed a sales application with php (codeigniter framework). i am using xampp to run this application in local PC's browser. now i want 2 things:
is there any way to run this application as a desktop application? something like an icon will open the app and run without any browser. also without xampp to be set up.
also i want to protect the code from unauthorized using. someone can easily copy the code and run it on other computer. i want to prevent this.
please help me about these issues. thanks in advance.
PHP is not really suitable for either of these things. You're going to need a browser either way, but you could if you really wanted to use some kind of custom browser (e.g., you can use Java or .NET to create a window that has a basic browser page with only whatever controls you want to add on it rather than a full browser).
You won't be able to prevent people copying it, but you could try googling for a PHP obfuscator to make the code hard to read and you could add whatever checks you may wish to determine the PC is one you've approved (perhaps some kind of license file and you could activate it against a MAC address or something).
You can use PHP/GTK+ to create a PHP Desktop Application, but the code protection is very difficult, you can try ofuscating the code, or you can use a php compiler like this: http://www.phpcompiler.org/
I would not use php to develop a desktop application as you like, try using another language, dont use scripting, use compiled codes.
Luck with you project.
PHP is a recursive acronym which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor." At its core, PHP is designed to process information and output it as HTML ("Hypertext"). If you wish to output information primarily as something other than HTML, PHP is probably the wrong language.
PHP is also a scripting language. That means that it is not compiled (converted from source code to machine code). As such, the scripts are human-readable. Tools such as phc exist, but if you want a compiled application, PHP is probably the wrong language.
Can you use PHP as a desktop application? Yes. Can you compile PHP? Yes. Should you? Probably not, because you are circumventing the purpose and features of the language.
If you are interested in writing client-side applications with PHP, you have to use PHP-GTK. I don't know how flexible is that. In any case, you should try it to see what it can do for you ;)
We run multiple Windows/IIS/.Net sites (up to 30+ sites per server). Each site is customized for the individual customer via a configuration file that contains the settings.
I am tasked with writing a small tool that will 'grep' all of the config files on a certain server for a particular config setting (or settings) and return the values for a nice tabled web page display. It will save many groups lots of time, especially since most groups don't have access to production servers, but they need to know how a customer is currently configured.
I have working code that finds all .config files from a starting path, I can easily extend this to do my grep'ing. Here are the challenges:
I want to aggregate this data from MULTIPLE servers. That means, the tool will be hosted on its own server -- and will make calls to a list of servers.
I'm limited to using .NET/ASP on the actual servers (they won't install PHP on IIS), but I'm writing the tool in PHP.
PROPOSED DESIGN: From my vantage point, I'm thinking the best way to accomplish this is to write my PHP tool and have it make AJAX or CURL requests to ASP scripts that live on each server in the list. Each ASP script could do the recursive directory parsing to find the config files and individually grep the files for the data, and return it in the RESPONSE.
Is that the best way to accomplish this? Should the ASP or PHP side do the 'heavy lifting'? Is their a recommended data format I should be using to pass the data.
Any ideas or samples would be great. If you need more info, I can provide!
Thanks!
Update: Here's an example of a config. Its a basic ASP file that gets included in other scripts.
custConfig1 = " 8,9,6:5:5 "
custConfig2 = " On "
I think you're bang on using PHP for the "receiving" script, and pretty sure you have that in hand.
Based on the format of your example config file, you could use ExecuteGlobal in classic ASP to load each file as you loop through them in your recursive directory lookup. Then you can use the custConfig1 et al. names in your script. e.g. (pseudo)
for each file
output("custConfig1") = custConfig1
next
Return what you need as JSON using a handy library and then do all the "hard" work of collating it and outputting it in PHP.
Yes, "grep" (if by that you mean importing a text file and using reg expressions to navigate it) isn't the best solution, in my humble opinion, use either JSON or XML as the format, and use PHP's built in XML or JSON tools.
JSON: http://php.net/manual/en/book.json.php
XML: http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php
You could use the DOM to navigate XML alternatively to SimpleXML, but SimpleXML is easier to learn (again, in my opinion) and will work for your needs.
Read my question thoroughly before responding, I know there’s a site called wonderfl.net
I‘ve got the Flex SDK 4 on my Mac and I found a way to compile AS3 into SWF files using Flex's mxmlc compiler in Xcode, so I wondered, would it be possible to do this sort of simply online? Using for example a language I'm familiar with, PHP?
I thought it’d be a thing that would be interesting to use for a website, or like some private projects.
Thanks in advance!
You have the available tools to do so. You can write the AS3 content posted from the web into files, use PHP's exec function to run mxmlc, then send the resulting .SWF file to the client using PHP's readfile function. You'd just have to make sure mxmlc was present on the web server running the PHP.
I have this nice big Dev Kit written in PHP, but the application I'm currently developing is in CFML.
In an attempt to avoid rewriting the PHP, I'm going to try to just wrap the PHP in CF <script> tags and call the PHP functions when I need them.
Does anyone have any idea how to call one of those PHP functions inline in CF?
There's no built-in way to do this, but using CFGroovy (which allows you to inline any Java Scripting API-compliant language implementation) and Quercus (a PHP implementation in Java), you may be able to pull off what you want/
CFGroovy: http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/projects/cfgroovy2/
Quercus: http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/quercus/
A simple example including source code:
http://www.barneyb.com/cfgroovy2/
You can't. It's a whole other app engine. You could use CFHTTP to call a PHP page - but it's a bit overkill. You can look at Sean's solution here:
http://corfield.org/entry/ColdFusion_8_running_PHP
Edward M. Smith is right. You may be able to mix PHP and CFML by using Resin as your JVM. While I have not done so, I do believe it is possible to have Resin interpret your PHP code from within the same context as a CFML (ColdFusion) Web site.
A .cfm/.cfc could not contain any PHP and a .php file could not contain any CFML/CFScript;
however, those files could live side by side within your www.something.com domain.
Resin http://www.caucho.com/ is a Web Server/PHP Interpreter that is very fast and written in Java. It is the bundled JVM for the open source CFML project Railo.
Hope this helps.
You can pass data back and forth by having php/coldfusion store/retrieve client array's or variables.
One other choice is to force coldfusion to parse through .php files, for any coldfusion inside there. How it would handle the mixture of coldfusion and php, I am not sure...
I am writing a small web server, nothing fancy, I basically just want to be able to show some files. I would like to use PHP though, and im wondering if just putting the php code inside of the html will be fine, or if I need to actually use some type of PHP library?
http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/win/misc/webserver.html
I just downloaded that and I am going to use that to work off of. Basically I am writing a serverside game plugin that will allow game server owners to access a web control panel for their server. Some features would be possible with PHP so this is my goal. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
The PHP won't serve itself. What happens in a web server like Apache is before the PHP is served to the user it is passed through a PHP parser. That PHP parser reads, understands and executes anything between (or even ) tags depending on configuration. The resultant output, usually still HTML, is served by the web server.
There are a number of ways to achieve this. Modules to process PHP have been written by Apache but you do not have to use these. PHP.exe on windows, installed from windows.php.net, will do this for you. Given a PHP file as an argument it will parse the PHP and spit the result back out on the standard output.
So, one option for you is to start PHP.exe from within your web server with a re-directed standard output to your program, and serve the result.
How to create a child process with re-directed IO: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682499%28VS.85%29.aspx however, you won't be writing the child process, that'll be PHP.exe
Caveat: I am not sure from a security / in production use perspective if this is the most secure approach, but it would work.
PHP needs to be processed by the PHP runtime. I'm assuming the case you're talking about is that you have a C++ server answering HTTP queries, and you want to write PHP code out with the HTML when you respond to clients.
I'm not aware of any general-purpose PHP library. The most straightforward solution is probably to use PHP as a CGI program.
Here's a link that might be useful for that: http://osdir.com/ml/php-general/2009-06/msg00473.html
This method is nice because you don't need to write the HTML+PHP out to a file first; you can stream it to PHP.
You need execute the PHP page to serve the page it generates.
The easiest thing for you to do would be to add CGI support to your webserver in some basic form. This is non-trivial, but not too difficult. Basically you need to pass PHP an environment and input, and retrieve the output.
Once you have CGI support you can just use any executable, including PHP, to generate webpages.