Designing Java applets to work with PHP server scripts

[K.J. Williams]

I want to know, in general, how easy is it to design a Java applet to work with PHP for use on the internet?

thanks

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I want to know, in general, how easy is it to design a Java applet to work with PHP for use on the internet?

Rather easy.

Applet with builtin (Http)URLConnection or Apache HttpClient or
another HTTP client lib and a PHP script returning XML/JSON/CSV
is very simple to implement.

Arne

 

[Roedy Green]

I want to know, in general, how easy is it to design a Java applet to work with PHP for use on the internet?

They have nothing to do with each other. You trigger an Applet with
ordinary HTML. You don't have to dynamically generate anything.

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[Nigel Wade]

I want to know, in general, how easy is it to design a Java applet to work with PHP for use on the internet?

You need to be more explicit. Java applets are normally delivered from a
web server, and run client-side. PHP is a general purpose scripting
language which happens to be used on some web servers for CGI and other
server-side operations.

In what do you want an applet to "work with" PHP?

 

[Roedy Green]

In what do you want an applet to "work with" PHP?

Maybe you mean have the applet send in transactions that look like CGI
forms?
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in impressing you than informing you. If this were not
so, the tutorials on building a robots.txt file, for example,
would consist primarily of an annotated example. What you get
instead are nothing but inscrutable adstract fragments in some
obscure dialect of BNF.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

You need to be more explicit. Java applets are normally delivered from a
web server, and run client-side. PHP is a general purpose scripting
language which happens to be used on some web servers for CGI and other
server-side operations.

In what do you want an applet to "work with" PHP?

Having an applet communicate with a web service is rather common.

Arne

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Maybe you mean have the applet send in transactions that look like CGI
forms?

Forms are defined in the HTML standard not in the CGI standard.

Arne

 

[Nigel Wade]

Having an applet communicate with a web service is rather common.

I know it is, but that is just one rather specific instance of "server
scripts".

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I know it is, but that is just one rather specific instance of "server
scripts".

But in the context of "Java applet to work with PHP" it is a pretty good
fit.

Arne

 

[Nigel Wade]

But in the context of "Java applet to work with PHP" it is a pretty good
fit.

I would think CGI is a far more common fit than web service. But it
would still be an assumption which may mean wasting time providing
advice on heading down blind alleys. Better to get a more definitive
context from the OP first (which has still not been provided).

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I would think CGI is a far more common fit than web service.

I can not see where CGI fits in.

Running PHP via CGI instead of FastCGI or Apache module is
not related to applets.

Arne

 

[Nigel Wade]

I can not see where CGI fits in.

Running PHP via CGI instead of FastCGI or Apache module is
not related to applets.

What?

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

What?

I don't understand where CGI comes in.

We know we have applet and PHP.

Where does CGI get involved?

Arne

 

[Nigel Wade]

I don't understand where CGI comes in.

We know we have applet and PHP.

Where does CGI get involved?

If you use the applet to communicate with a CGI PHP script.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

If you use the applet to communicate with a CGI PHP script.

I still don't get it.

CGI is a protocol used between web servers and scripts/scriptengines.

You can do:

applet----(HTTP)----web server----(CGI)----PHP

or:

applet----(HTTP)----web server----(something else than CGI)----PHP

But whether PHP is integrated via CGI or FastCGI or Apache module
(in process call) does not impact how the PHP code looks and not
how the Java applet code look like - it is purely a server
configuration issue.

I don't think the original poster is asking on how to integrated PHP
with his web server.

Arne