Not really a coding question exactly, and not sure which stack site to throw this on, so here goes.
Im wondering if there is any framework similar to appmobi/phonegap in the sense everything is sandboxed and compiled into an app format for both iphone and droids. Where the sandboxed server comes with the ability to run PHP on it, I've been tryin to search all day and I've come up with nothing as of yet other then heaps of articles on appmobi/phonegap. This could be a free or paid for framework (preferably free/open source).
If theres no frameworks like that then is there a means of taking something like apache itself that acts and runs like a webserver where I can load php into it, and at the end of my project compile it into one final package for use in the mobile markets?
The problem is that iOS generally uses Objective-C and the Android uses Java, but both can use javascript, which is why phonegap works.
So, unless you can write two webservers, one for iOS and one for Android, and port PHP to run under your webserver, or, more likely, write an interpreter that will take PHP and transform it to run on your webserver, then it would work.
But, if you write a mobile web application and use PHP as the code on the server, then you can send javascript and have that run in a browser on both devices.
The best option would be to have most of your business logic be in REST services that are written in PHP. You can do this in PhoneGap by following this blog:
http://share.ez.no/blogs/thiago-campos-viana/rest-api-basic-http-auth-and-phonegap-using-jquery
Here is the main part of the article though, so you can see how easy it can be.
//10.0.2.2:80 is the localhost in android emulator, app needs internet access
$.get("http://10.0.2.2:80/ez_site/api/ezp/content/node/2",
function(data) {
//code goes here
});
By doing this then you can have most of your business logic in PHP, and have just the UI be in javascript, able to take advantage of the hardware on the phones.
No. Attempting to include a web server and PHP runtime inside of a mobile application would have serious performance implications.
The reason PhoneGap works is because Javascript can execute natively in mobile applications by using the built-in web browser's rendering engine.
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At work we have a enterprise store, meaning we can kind of bypass most of the main Apple App Store regulations. We have a special data-management system written in CodeIgniter with MySQL as the database engine serving the framework on Apache.
We are now getting more and more questions to run the system offline on the iPad. I've tried to use LocalStorage and such, yet it's just not enough and stable enough (WebStorage/WebSQL glitchy) and the allowed storage size is too small to fit all offline buffered data into.
I know this is very ugly, but as we mostly know, customers always find the most weird ways of requesting features and our sales team always manages to push it through without consulting us :P.
I did browse Google/DuckDuckGo and CocoaPods for a while, but I can't really find anything combining PHP serving within Swift (Objective-C would be ok too) serving it on Apache/Nginx/FastCGI with MySQL (I could substitute this with SQLite3).
I was wondering if anyone has experience with running an internal server in Swift/Objective-C in this fashion.
If you wish to keep your current stack of technologies, you could use something like Realm. It is a replacement for Core Data, and it allows you to easily create objects from JSON REST API and store it to the local database. But you still have to write some application specific code to keep data on the mobile device in sync with the server, and you have to have RESTful services that produce JSON on the server.
If you're ready to switch your persistence stack, you could use Couchbase Mobile that allows you to transparently sync your data on the device with data in your backend database, back and forth. But then you have to use Couchbase on the server.
If you want server-side Objective-C, look at https://github.com/depinette/backtoweb
I have not updated this framework in a while but it worked for me.
It's based on fastcgi and it can be used with the Apache server integrated with OSX.
I suppose you could use swift instead of Objective-C.
I've developed an application that I would like to use meteor.js for real time updates (I want to enhance but not change my program, for example when a user adds a comments make it update in real-time ) . Problem is meteor.js uses node.js (so javascript as server-side code). I use LAMP stack, Is it possible to get PHP to feed data into meteor.js from mysql.
Meteor is more than just an 'interactive webapplication'-builder or javascript framework. The idea is to have only one programming language (besides HTML/CSS for markup) to do all the work. Basically it creates a 'remote server' (in the clients browser) it can push data to and at the same time it publishes various API's to the users system. The data passed through these API's / connections has a specific structure which has to be adhered at all time.
Meteor is built around NodeJS, which makes it hard (if not impossible) to run it without this backend. Sure you can try to mimic the backend using PHP, but it would be a waste of time. Reading your question you'll be better of using a javascript framework like jQuery or Prototype. Unlike Meteor you will need to do the AJAX calls (POST & CallBack) yourself, but you can actually decide which backend you want to use yourself (including PHP / MySQL).
If you want to do this anyway you need to check the Meteor & NodeJS source code to see what the minimum requirements are to make Meteor run under PHP. The PHP stack has to interpret the commands Meteor sends and receivers, but this won't be an easy task.
You can use comet (or reverse ajax) for realtime updates.
Trying to marry node.js with PHP doesn't sound like a worthwhile path to go down. If someone insisted on using a system like Meteor.js, yet with a PHP back-end, it would make more sense to look at AngularJS which is mainly the client side.
Of course, that is different technology stack. If someone really insisted on the blending, one could consider using server side sockets to interact with PHP Web services; and/or use mongodb and/or mysql-node to interact with the same databases.
I released a meteorite package that interacts with a Wordpress site that has the Wordpress JSON API. A quick fix. For now.
Comes with a backend call that will return the raw data, or a publication that stores the posts using their id's instead of a randomly generated mongoid. And some basic templates to get you started including a Session variable that keeps track of the currently selected post.
I'm working on it a lot more and will eventually have a version that directly makes mysql calls from node so you won't need php or Wordpress; just the ability to access the mysql database (which can be remote, with the appropriate configuration, or on the same machine).
I have created a html page which sends custom data to a php file which then processes and evaluates it.
My next task is to make this into a GUI with the requirements:
1. A box for a custom search with button (it then posts this into the
php)
2. A box where xml/json request can be seen
3. A box where the xml/json response can be seen
4. A box where the parsed version is translated and made to look pretty.
***MUST CONNECT TO INTERNET, PHP ESTABLISHES CONNECTION BUT DO NOT WANT A GUI ISSUE
Any suggestions on programs or languages etc which can help me communicate with PHP in GUI form. It needs to be able to access the internet!
I was thinking perhaps Visual Basic as that's the only one I've ever used that really uses GUI's but I'm wondering what you all think!
Thanks!
Basically, what you're asking for is a web browser, with a very simple little HTML/Javascript front-end web page to make the PHP calls and display the results. I'm not entirely sure what it is about a browser environment that makes you think it's unsuitable, but it's basically exactly what you're asking for.
If a full-blown web browser really isn't suitable, you could try using a web browser control inside a simple GUI app. This would still work exactly the same, but would be without the browser controls, such as the URL bar.
Just use a browser.
If you don't want to do that -- build a browser.
If you are just looking for basically a web-based REST testing tool, try the Firefox RESTClient plug-in.
Why don't you use a framework ?
You may take a look here:
AppJS for Linux, Windows and Mac using HTML, CSS and Javascript
Adobe AIR : cross-platform using ActionScript/FLEX or HTML/Javascript
Titanium : HTML/CSS (no support anymore)
PhoneGap : mainly used for cross-phone-platform, but here's an Windows implementation of it (you should read the README.md ...)
You may also check this from Mozilla
I am looking for a way to run an executable on the server and display its UI in the browser, so that the user can interact. Is it possible? If so, please suggest some ways of how I should do this.
I think that this will have something to do with Flash, Flex, ActiveX (choose which applicable), but I am not sure and that is why I am actually asking this question.
Before you ask, "What do I need this for?", I would like to create a simple Intranet website for my local network so that my relatives can use few applications from their browsers instead of network shares or remote desktop connections.
The website will be done in PHP and running on Apache.
Any ideas, people?
This is difficult because you cannot magically transform the UI of those applications to a UI that would render in a browser. Also, your Delphi applications likely dont have any entry points for handling HTTP based requests. Even if you could provide those via PHP you'd still have to delegate them to the executable then somehow, which means your Delphi app needs to provide the full functionality via a command line interface or similar means.
EDIT came across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO-qca9ddqg. The video shows how to run applications built with a GTK3 UI, like GIMP, in the browser. The application itself is run and maintained completely on the server. PHP does have bindings for GTK though not for GTK3, so while it's not currently possible, it is in theory.
I'd like to create an API for a project I'm working on, allowing developers to create desktop and mobile applications built around its functionality. One thing I've always wanted to learn how to do is create a stateless, push notification system, similar to Twitter's Streaming API.
Basically, I want to be able to notify users of any changes to the data in real time, or as close to it as possible. I know that this might be difficult on mobile devices, which is why mobile applications will probably be built to check for updates periodically, to save battery. However, desktop applications won't have that limitation. I'd like to avoid making the application ask the server if there is new information, and instead let the server tell the application that there is new data.
My programming language is PHP and my server is Apache. If I absolutely had to I could switch to Lighttpd or nginx, but that's an absolute last resort since it would require a lot of changes to all of my existing code.
I've read this article:
http://www.zeitoun.net/articles/comet_and_php/start
And tested it out, but unfortunately all that happens is my browser keeps attempting to load the page and never actually displays the time. I suspect this is because, for whatever reason, I've never been able to get output buffering to work on my server, unless I send 64kb (or more) of data. I heard that I had to disable gzip, which I did, and it still didn't work, so I don't know.
Have a look at some existing technologies to help you do this:
Tornado
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.
Pusher
Pusher is a hosted API for quickly, easily and securely adding scalable realtime functionality via WebSockets to web and mobile apps.
Both are extremely fast and scalable, and I have setup both relatively easily.
Well you could do this in several ways, you could build in a poller at the client side, or you could use something like NodeJS. (http://nodejs.org/) or web sockets.
Yeah another good piece is
http://socket.io/
and
http://elephant.io/
some tuorials like this might also be useful.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/articles/application-architecture/optimization/creating-real-time-applications-with-php-and-websockets.html