Posted by Susan Baker on 12/19/05 17:43

CJ Llewellyn wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:02:18 +0000, Susan Baker wrote:
> -snip-
>
>>>I really like Java for my bigger projects with Hibernate as ORM-tool.
>>>I am also very satisfied with PHP5. The only thing I really miss with
>>>PHP5 is a good debugger which slows down development considerably.
>>>
>>
>>I had to move away from Java/J2EE because of support/maintainance
>>issues, for now I have scaled down the server side requirements so that
>>I can use PHP - however, it is still not clear to me, how o use a C#
>>frontend to communicate with PHP objects at the server side - this is
>>what I was trying to find out in my OP.
>
>
> The same way you'd use C#, Java, Python, Perl or gazzillions of other
> programming languages as middle tier layers. Web Services + SOAP
>
> php has a whole suite of libraries already written for this type of
> interoperation.
>
> http://pear.php.net/package/SOAP
>
> However as you are aleady using .net at the client end, why not write the
> backend in C#?
>
SOAP is too heavy (and thus WDSL/web services goes out the window too),
as I mentioned in a previous post. I want to use sockets (I was
expecting someone to suggest using HttpRequest class - or whatever) ...

It seems no one is even aware that this is possible...

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