I was wondering whether it's possible to install a phpbb instance to Google App Engine since I saw this: https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/ and this: http://php-apps.appspot.com/
Standing up a phpBB instance on Google App Engine and Cloud SQL.
They seem to have done it. I am trying to look for a Youtube tutorial.
I am not that expert but as far as I know GAE is not natively designed for PHP.
You can definitely use this instruction as a basis on How to Add phpBB with Jelastic service. The given instruction seems to present a pretty easy start.
Yes, it's possible -- see: http://fredsa.allen-sauer.com/2013/07/standing-up-phpbb-instance-on-google.html
(App Engine now has a PHP runtime: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/).
Maybe. It's hard to say. It's possible to run SQL as well as PHP via Quercus (JVM). The limitations you'll run into are if phpBB depends on any specific behavior that App Engine does not support, such as native filesystem access. I haven't heard of anyone trying phpBB on GAE before, so if you took a shot at it, you'd be blazing a trail!
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I have already created a REST API w/ the Slim framework (php microframework), which is basically a few php files in a ftp server, and a SQL table.
I want to implement this very simple configuration with Google Api Engine, and there's so much resources and confusing pages in the google tutorials I can't seem to find what I'm looking for...
Can someone steer me to the right direction please ? Again, just a few php files (w/ Slim) and a sql database, that's it.
Thank you very much.
If I were you I would begin with the PHP tutorial for Google App Engine, that you can find here 1.
Try to deploy your existing app there, but be aware that the PHP runtime is still in Beta. Also your app will execute in a restricted "sandbox" environment 2.
Hope it helps.
I've made my entire site using the Codeigniter framework, and it is working well without any hassles (Note I'm using MySQL in the website).
I've been told now to try and get it on to the Google servers as they are excellent for scalability. I just have one huge problem, is there any way or step by step tutorial that helps me do this as I've read up on Quercus which allows for the php to run but I haven't found something explaining how to use the Codeigniter framework with the Quercus.
Please any help or push in the right direction would be appreciated!
We announced Native PHP support for Google App Engine at I/O.
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/
After Google announced native PHP support I decided to deploy CodeIgniter on Google App Engine. It works natively, tough certain extensions to the core must be done in order to use PHP Runtime API.
I've started writing a series of articles you might want to check out which document and clarify the process of deploying CodeIgniter natively.
http://blog.programming4design.com/codeigniter-on-google-appengine-for-php/
PHP is being added natively to App Engine, maybe this year, but I'm not sure when. The App Engine Team announced this on the parntership event at Paris last week.
CodeIgniter works fine on Google App Engine's PHP.
Working Demo at : http://ci-on-gae.sasidhar.com/
Source files for the entire above demo site are in Github at : https://github.com/sasidhar/codeigniter-gae-app
I'm thinking in create a webapplication with cakephp but consuming python's appengine webservice. But, to install cakephp etc, I need to configure the database. Appengine uses another kind of datastorage, with is different from mysql, etc.
I was thinking in store the data in appengine, and using the python webservices, and with the cakephp application comunicating with the webservice, for insert and retrieve data.
Is there any good resource for this, or is it unpossible.
Obs: also opened for a possibility for developing the webapplicaiton completely in python running in appengine. If anyone has a good resource.
Thanks.
I think that you should try different solution: http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/
It appears that CakePHP is a MVC framework that's very similar to django, which is included in app engine for python. I'm not sure why you would want to store your data in google app engine, unless you're dealing with an extremely large amount of data, in which case you're likely comfortable enough working in python to just make the app work entirely on GAE.
See the official docs for more info:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/overview.html
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django.html
What you can do is run your CakePHP app on a standard LAMP web host and access the GAE Data Store through a REST or RPC web service. This isn't such a bad idea if you already have a CakePHP front-end that deals with RPCs in the backend, but if your Cake app stores all it's Models in MySQL it could take considerable effort to adapt it.CakePHP Models abstract their storage method using the DataSource class. You might be able to find a DataSource class that uses REST or RPC. However, if you don't have a very considerable investment in CakePHP Controllers and Templates I would suggest simply building your app entirely in GAE
You can not run PHP on GAE. If you run PHP somewhere, it is a bad architecture to go over the internet for your data. It will be slooooow and a nightmare to develop in.
You should store your data where you run your php, unless you must have a distributed, globally scaling architecture, which afaiu not the case.
There's a detailed tutorial on getting CakePHP up using the PHP runtime that Google recently announced. http://aymanrb.blogspot.com/2013/05/cakephp-deployment-on-google-app-engine.html
I am planning to create a facebook canvas app using php sdk.
Google app engine providing free account so I am planning to do it.
But still there is a problem , right now google app engine support only java and python.
Is there any way to run php and mysql in google app engine?
Okay, I am two years late, but from today PHP is officially available on Google App Engine.
PHP can't run natively on the App Engine. But, there is an open source tool called Quercus, a 100% Java implementation of the PHP language (requires JDK 1.5). Since the App Engine now supports Java this means you can use Quercus to run PHP scripts on the App Engine.
You can run PHP scripts on App Engine in the JVM with Quercus; however, it's still not possible to use mySQL; you'll need to use the App Engine datastore. This will require rewriting any code that touches a database, so existing PHP scripts aren't going to work without a lot of hacking.
Note: relational database support is on the App Engine roadmap, but no one knows exactly when it will be available, or whether the relational database made available will be mySQL.
Google App engine now supports PHP run time. Check official documentation here - https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/
You can check this blog for details on announcement - http://spsneo.com/blog/2013/05/18/php-on-google-app-engine/
Quercus is not as good as running PHP natively and it has known issues. As i understand you are starting to create an application, so i suggest using Python in appengine. Its very easy to get started.
If you have LAMP based application in mind and if you do not want to learn a new language check out Amazon Beanstalk.
I suggest making a decision based on the strengths of the platform and flexibility you need.
Google has officially announced its support for PHP on Google App Engine (GAE)
How to host PHP web application on GAE for free is explained in this tutorial.
I want to use Google App Engine for the static data for my Joomla website. I want to host all the CSS and JS files on App Engine.
Joomla is written using PHP.
By default Google App Engine only supports applications written in Python, and in the future Java. See Google App Engine FAQ so PHP is not natively supported.
There is a way to run PHP on Google App Engine however by using a Java Virtual Machine named Quercus. Your biggest issue will be that it will require large amounts of modification to Joomla's source code with the change to using GQL instead of SQL.
Source: http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/92-Running-PHP-on-Google-App-Engine.html
Are you looking for ways to easily scale your Joomla installation?
Google App Engine now supports PHP. Hence, you can run Joomla!.
See this link.