Mike Golding, a Domino developer, is beginning to play with PHP as middleware:
...[M]ost of the PHP work I am doing at the moment is experimental (using MySQL and Apache) but will eventually (hopefully) involve using PHP and Domino on IIS configured to run side by side in a corporate environment using PHP to gather information from Domino, MS SQL Server and other ODBC sources. While I could do this with Java or ASP I feel there is no reason I can't learn something that might be useful in the wider world of the Internet especially when PHP is free and is a 5 minute installation/configuration on IIS.Back to Compendium
Since PHP can work with COM objects, and IBM Lotus Software has supported COM access to Domino data since somewere around release 5.02, integrating a PHP server with Domino data should be a piece of cake -- as long as the PHP code is running on a Windows machine. There are probably other ways that one could integrate a standalone PHP server on other platforms with Domino -- e.g., via web services (since it is possible to expose Domino data as a web service), but these methods wouldn't be quite as easy. I believe that several people have also successfully integrated PHP with the Domino http stack -- I had a bookmark to a series of articles about it, but seem to have lost it. Anyhow, there's no question that it can be done.
-rich
Posted by: Richard Schwartz on September 16, 2004 12:01 PMPost a comment
