-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 19, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Ben Sims wrote:
> Thanks again for your helpful reply. In particular, I really like > the sound of being able to use different databases for different > types/sources of data; this sort of ability to integrate is exactly > the sort of thing I am envisioning. > > Re: integrating PHP and Python: > > I did, after various search combinations, find this presentation > from 2002: > > http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/pres/php-2002/pip-applications.ppt, and > consequently http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/projects/pip/. However, > nothing seems to have happened on this since 2002 and so I'm not > really keen on it. > > In any case, thinking about it more I realise that since I want to > be able to use a standalone (and possibly remote) Mailman server a > PHP/Python combination probably wouldn't be perfect. > > One thing I did pickup from the presentation above was his use of > the Python Mailman modules in his wrapper scripts. I've been > looking more into what I can do using those, rather than the > command line. > > At the same time, I've been looking into what can be done (and how > easily) using Web Services. In particular, I like the sound of the > Zolera SOAP Infrastructure, which seems to provide a very simple > way to access Python functions over SOAP. So, my thinking at the > moment is to hack up a single Python object which wraps the > relevant Mailman modules for the functionality I need to use, then > use ZSI to expose that object as a web service. If I need to, I can > always just call the command line scripts from that object, so I > wouldn't be cutting off any options. > > This seems to me, at the moment, to be the best compromise between > doing it 'properly' and my need to have something up and running > quickly, however ramshackle. Hi Ben, please let us know how it goes. Cheers, - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRlIIe3EjvBPtnXfVAQKk8QP9Fr84KeCRdiuTX2bdvWHcGJN9TL99qSpj FrWCdEUYjOpihUdaI414eHH5+cs2dlgWP/sHtjA1fxl7sNXrnQo5wiRgXSY12nq3 dX7lGP93kxeix+ukeb+JLKlOlrrUC7Jq39XV/w4vwB5w4j8PtqWET91rYj0qu99Z k3IQ/Ki2hW0= =sfGx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
