Is it possible to run some php app (e.g. wordpress) together with django within one heroku instance, so that the part of app's urls would be served by php and the rest by django?
no, application type is determined at slug compilation time when the application is pushed to Heroku. Not sure if you could do anything with a custom build pack but I would have thought so.
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I am sorry for this such question as I am still a fresh beginner in Phonegap.
I have followed some tutorial both for the installation and the jquery.mobile usage.
There are some parts (the biggest part) that I am confused with this Phonegap. And it is about the directory structure.
I am working with Private PHP Framework from my department, that is why I used Lamp Stack for all of this.
However, with the Phonegap tutorials I have been following this far, it looks like it have a little bit different environment structure from usual. It have five default directory as follows:
Hook
platforms
Plugins
www
In where the working directory for this Phonegap must be in the www directory.
It makes me afraid because our Apache Environment require us to put the directory in costume folder (Not in var/www), and then also the PHP Framework require us to put the module in a specific folder.
Please, I just need an enlightment for this Phonegap, how do you access the files and where do you guys put it.
Many thanks in advance.
As requested:
Create another vhost that points to www. You don't need to worry about hook, platform and plugins which are cordova/phonegap folders. Let them all at the same level (don't change the structure, just point the vhost to www).
The structure of cordova/phonegap is simple. Inside the www folder will be all your programming logic to build yours mobile app.
But beware, the cordova/phonegap does not compile code in PHP, it just uses a webview (like a browser) to run your mobile application developed with HTML, CSS and Javascript, packaged in a apk with access to native features of the smartphone/tablet, basically.
To make your application to communicate to the server in php you have two alternatives:
1) Making your app to access a URL that points to the application
developed with PHP and render its application in webview.
2) Create all purely on HTML, CSS and Javascript and make
communication via ajax, or socket or something similar to the server.
I'm looking to rewrite an old website using React.js for my frontend framework and PHP for the little backend stuff I may need.
The server I'm using is IIS with Apache, but I have little/no SSH access/ability to install stuff on the machine (i.e. npm, node, etc.), so I'm restricted to using PHP as a backend (so I can't build/compile my React JSX serverside). However, couldn't I simply just upload built/compiled my react files to the server?
I have seen this, but I'm not entirely sure that I need it?
Basically, my question is, is using these two together practical? Would I need any other tools to accomplish this? (The website is likely to be pretty small.)
I've used PHP and React together briefly (and then moved on to isomorphic React). Running V8 with PHP is only useful if you need server-side rendering (for fast initial loading and easy SEO), but I've not tried it so I'm not sure whether it's stable/reliable enough. If you do not care about server-side rendering, then you can just build the React app and include it in your PHP view.
Basically, the PHP view would serve as a layout, with a React container element defined so that your React app can bootstrap with it.
You can also pre-fetch the initial data for the React app with PHP and somehow attach it to your PHP view. The simplest way would be to use a script block to assign the JSON-serialized data to a global variable. Another way would be to define element(s) and attach your JSON-serialized data as element attributes, to avoid globals. Either way, you'd have your Flux stores bootstrap with those initial data to avoid having to hit APIs before the app can load.
During the past two years I have built an App Engine application in Python. Soon it will be possible to use PHP on App Engine. I would like to use off-the-shelf PHP applications such as Wordpress, Mediawiki and phpBB together with my Python application. To the user it should be transparent which of the two applications (Python or PHP) she is using for a particular page. I consider the Python application to be the main application where I will do most of the programming. This is because I have more experience with Python and also because I already have written a lot of reusable code for App Engine.
Currently my approach is to build a proxy in Python that maps HTTP requests like this:
http://www.yellow.com/blog/* to http://phpapp.appspot.com/wordpress/client1/*
http://www.yellow.com/community/* to http://phpapp.appspot.com/phpbb/client1/*
yellow.com is a domain mapped to my Python application.
http://www.blue.com/wiki/* to http://phpapp.appspot.com/mediawiki/client2/*
http://www.blue.com/* to http://phpapp.appspot.com/wordpress/client2/*
blue.com is a domain mapped to my Python application.
Besides the blog, community or wiki, there are a lot of URL's that don't require PHP. These URL's are handled by the Python application. For example: http://www.yellow.com/admin/*.
I'm still struggling with the proxy to get the passing of cookies between the two applications right, but I think it's possible to do this.
It would be awesome if I could get it to work this way. However, it seems to me this is not the most elegant way to handle this. I know I could use subdomains to serve the PHP applications, but I would rather just use URL patterns. Also, with the proxy approach, I can tweak the returned HTML by the PHP application before serving it to the user. Another advantage of this approach is the ability to cache the pages from the PHP applications in memcache.
I would like to hear what you think of my approach to use Google App Engine (custom) Python and (off-the-shelf) PHP applications together. Will I run into problems with the proxy (Javascript, cookies, ...)? Would it be better to build everything in Wordpress, for example, with custom plugins written in PHP (the plugins could fetch data from the Python application)? Other suggestions?
Your use case is a good example of what Appengine's Modules are intended for. Take also a look at the dispatch mechanism.
I work for a small tech start-up, and our main site is built on the CMS Drupal, which is a PHP-based CMS. However, I know some Python and would like to develop web applications to integrate with the website and allow users to interact with them.
How would I go about doing this? Does anyone have any experience or knowledge? Any particular module/script/etc that allows using Python or calling Python from PHP or Drupal?
If you are developing a web application nothing stops you from using Python and making it accessible from a subdomain or path not used by drupal, just have the web server point to it. Ex:
http://mainsite.com/ <- drupal
http://app.mainsite.com <- python web app
http://mainsite.com/python/ <- python web app
This is fairly straight-forward with most web servers. Django might be particularly well suited for this, it has a nice feature which can inspect live databases, and generate models for you:
python manage.py inspect.db > models.py
Which lets you interact with your existing database from Python with a nice ORM.
If you need to literally call Python from a PHP page, you can use zeromq for fast IPC or TCP communication, or build a simple REST API, etc.
There are several different ways to do integrate Drupal with external applications, but your best bet is probably installing the services module in Drupal, and make calls from your Python app over HTTP, just as you would interact with a remote server.
Some other options:
Interact directly with Drupal's database, rather risky as Drupal's database structure can change significantly with module upgrades or even configuration changes.
Place the Python app within an iframe of a Drupal page, giving you Drupal's design, though no functional integration.
Use JavaScript as a client-side middle-man between Drupal and Python.
Use command line as a server-side middle-man between Drupal and Python. Drush would be useful here.
I asked a question here on automated deployment of automatically deploying java code.
Our back-end Java API is accessed by a PHP web app. It would be nice to be able to automatically deploy this web app (along with static files like CSS, JS and images) to our web server while performing automatic testing on PHP code. Is there something similar to this for PHP?
I also wonder if as part of this automated testing you can check that each actual page loads without a fatal error. I am sure I read about a google project which allows you to write page tests e.g. click on link a, go to page b etc etc.
Thanks
You may want to look into using Phing for deployment which has features that allow testing with PHPUnit and/or SimpleTest
Maybe this question handling deployment strategies can help you.
Additionally, but maybe gone too far, tools like cruise control may help you to apply continuous integration, too.
PHPUnit with ant was my way to go for automated testing, which could be a vaild option for you, too since you're obviously using some java already :)
Since you're working with Java, you might consider using Hudson (also mentioned in your other question), which has the ability to execute build tasks consisting of several 'steps' One step step could be unit testing your Java App, another unit testing a PHP app, yet another deployinhg Java app, and another deploying a PHP app (and you could add some more ;P )
It has a Maven plugin, so you could actually use your existing Maven scripts.