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PHP talk at a Java conference?

• Configuring the OpenSolaris Apache and GlassFish with mod_jk to have parts of your Apache web site served with GlassFish
• Configuring the PHP-Java Bridge on OpenSolaris to extend your PHP applications with 'legacy calls' to Java processing performed under GlassFish
• Using daily builds of NetBeans 6.5 that have killer support for:
• Editing and debugging JavaScript
• Creating PHP project, editing and debugging PHP files with the OpenSolaris AMP stack. Yeahhh! NetBeans can do PHP!
• Adding jMaki Ajax snippets into PHP projects
• Using GlassFish V2 and V3 (V3 plugin is *now* part of the NetBeans 6.5 builds) Java EE project to demonstrate the PHP-Java interoperability

GlassFish V3 TP2 and NetBeans 6.1

CommunityOne JavaOne 2008

• OpenSolaris Indiana Web Stack integration (Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• GlassFish V3 TP2 
• GlassFish V3 TP2 plugin for NetBeans 6.1 (for Web Applications and jRuby On Rails Applications)
• GlassFish V3 TP2 plugin for Eclipse 3.3
• jMaki version 1.8: Plugins for NetBeans(JSP, PHP, Ruby, Phobos) and Eclipse (JSP)

OpenSolaris Indiana Web Stack integration (Apache, MySQL, PHP)

• Getting Started with OpenSolaris; New Features & Building OpenSolaris Packages -- David Comay, Stephen Hahn
• OpenSolaris Operating System and SAMP (Solaris OS, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Support for Web 2.0 Development: Developer Experience -- Ludovic Champenois, Jyri Virkki
• A Student and New User View of the OpenSolaris OS -- James Hughes
• Develop, Consolidate, and Manage Virtual Environments entirely in Open  Source -- Achim Hasenmueller, Joost Pronk
• OpenSolaris Operating System for Intel: Present and Future -- David Stewart, Intel Corporation
• The OpenSolaris™ Operating System and Storage -- James Hughes
• OpenSolaris™ Operating System and Wireless Networking Advances -- Geeta Krishna, Intel Corporation
• OpenSolaris™ Installfest: Get it NOW!

• S295418 - Tools for GlassFish V3 (Java EE Platform and Scripting Environment) -- Ludovic Champenois, Vivek Pandey

GlassFish V3 TP2

GlassFish V3 TP2 plugin for NetBeans 6.1 (for Web Applications and jRuby On Rails Applications)

GlassFish V3 TP2 plugin for Eclipse 3.3

GlassFish V3 TP2 running embedded inside Eclipse 3.3

jMaki version 1.8: Plugins for NetBeans(JSP, PHP, Ruby, Phobos) and Eclipse (JSP)

Eclipse Foundation and GlassFish community

1. https://glassfishplugins.dev.java.net/
2. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ludo/archive/2007/06/glassfish_tooli.html
3. https://glassfishplugins.dev.java.net/eclipse33/index.html
4. and watch the screencat at  http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/2007/06/screencast_ws6.html

Web Stack in SXDE

Default Welcome page in Firefox (bundled) for SXDE 1/08:

Desktop Menu to Initialize the Web Stack:

Desktop Menus after the initialization of the Web Stack:

Web Stack Options UI console:

Registering a MySQL database connection in the NetBeans PHP IDE:

Running a PHP Project via the NetBeans PHP IDE

100% Java Quercus PHP engine running in GlassFish Java EE 5 Application Server...

One final configuration file for php is needed. It is called GLASSFISHINSTALLDIR/domains/domain1/config/php.ini and should contain as a minimum this property value:

default_mimetype=text/html

Nothing more, nothing less. (If you are using a different GlassFish domain, just put this php.ini file in the domain's config directory.

So to recap, this is the files you should have on disk for configuring a PHP engine with GlassFish:

• GLASSFISHINSTALLDIR/
• lib/
• addons/
• quercus.jar (taken from the quercus-3_1-snap.war)
• resin-util.jar (taken form the quercus-3_1-snap.war)
• jsr223-api.jar (taken from Phobos CVS repository)
• domains/
• domain1/
• config/
• php.ini that contains default_mimetype=text/html

That's it...

Now using your favorite IDE (vi, or NetBeans), you can create a simple Web Application, and what you need to do is declare the PHP engine as a servlet and the location of the php.ini file, as follow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
 version="2.5"> 
 <description>Caucho Technology's PHP Implementation, Running on GlassFish Java EE 5</description> 
 <servlet>
 <servlet-name>Quercus Servlet</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>com.caucho.quercus.servlet.QuercusServlet</servlet-class>
 <init-param>
 <param-name>php-ini-file</param-name>
 <!-- the following value is a file name relative to the config directory 
 of the running GlassFish domain
 for example GLASSFISHINSTALLDIR/domains/domain1/config/ dir
 the php.ini file contains:
 default_mimetype=text/html 
 otherwise the current Quercus will give a NPE 
 (will be fixed soon from Caucho team)!--> 
  <param-value>php.ini</param-value>
 </init-param> 
 </servlet> 
 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Quercus Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>*.php</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping> 
 <welcome-file-list>
 <welcome-file>index.php</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

Now you are all set: this Web App is PHP ready. Just Add PHP files under the web folder area, where you would put your JSPs files.

The simplest index.php can be:

<?php
 echo "Hello World";
?>

If you want to test the Java interoperability, you can go wild and crazy with this:

<?php
  echo "Hello mom, look I have a date: ";
  $a = new java("java.util.Date", 123);
  echo $a->toString();
?>

A  complex PHP application  is MediaWiki.  Untar the mediawiki PHP application archive inside the WEB-INF area of your web application, and redeploy it (if you are using NetBeans, you have almost nothing to do as NetBeans does an update of the deployed build area when files are modified in the source area). Activate the Web Application at the correct URL to see if MediaWiki 1.9.3 home page is correct as below:

Here is the PHP index page...

<?php
# Initialise common code
require_once('./includes/WebStart.php' );

# Initialize MediaWiki base class

require_once("includes/Wiki.php" );

$mediaWiki = new MediaWiki();

wfProfileIn('main-misc-setup' );

OutputPage::setEncodings();
# Not really used yet

# Query string fields

$action = $wgRequest->getVal( 'action', 'view' );
$title = $wgRequest->getVal( 'title' );

$wgTitle = $mediaWiki->checkInitialQueries( $title,$action,$wgOut,
$wgRequest, $wgContLang );

if ($wgTitle == NULL) {
  unset( $wgTitle );
}

#
# Send Ajax requests to the Ajax dispatcher.
#
if ( $wgUseAjax && $action == 'ajax' ) {   
 require_once( $IP . '/includes/AjaxDispatcher.php' ); 
 $dispatcher = new AjaxDispatcher();
 $dispatcher->performAction();
 $mediaWiki->restInPeace( $wgLoadBalancer );
 exit;
}

wfProfileOut('main-misc-setup' );
# Setting global variables in mediaWiki

$mediaWiki->setVal('Server', $wgServer );
$mediaWiki->setVal('DisableInternalSearch', $wgDisableInternalSearch );

$mediaWiki->setVal('action', $action );
$mediaWiki->setVal('SquidMaxage', $wgSquidMaxage );
$mediaWiki->setVal('EnableDublinCoreRdf', $wgEnableDublinCoreRdf );
$mediaWiki->setVal('EnableCreativeCommonsRdf', $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf );
$mediaWiki->setVal('CommandLineMode', $wgCommandLineMode );
$mediaWiki->setVal('UseExternalEditor', $wgUseExternalEditor );
$mediaWiki->setVal('DisabledActions', $wgDisabledActions );

$wgArticle = $mediaWiki->initialize ( $wgTitle, $wgOut, $wgUser, $wgRequest );
$mediaWiki->finalCleanup( $wgDeferredUpdateList, $wgLoadBalancer, $wgOut );

# Not sure when $wgPostCommitUpdateList gets set, so I keep this separate from finalCleanup

$mediaWiki->doUpdates($wgPostCommitUpdateList );
$mediaWiki->restInPeace($wgLoadBalancer );
?>

For more info, read http://quercus.caucho.com/ and the documentation under http://quercus.caucho.com/quercus-3.1/index.xtp .

The pure Java PHP engine is still an Alpha version, so please try it, break it and give feedback. The list of PHP applications the caucho team will be testing is very impressive:

• DokuWiki 2006-11-06
• Dragonfly CMS 9.0.6.1.7
• Drupal 4.7.4
• Gallery2 2.1.2
• Joomla 1.0.11
• MediaWiki 1.9
• Phorum 5.1.16a
• phpBB 2.0.21
• phpMyAdmin 2.9.1.1
• PHProjekt 5.2
• PHP-Nuke 7.9
• Wordpress 2.0.5
• Xoops 2.0.16

And do not forget that the Ajax jMaki project is PHP friendly, and JSP friendly, and Server Side JavaScript Phobos friendly...

A Plus,

Ludo

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