Re: [PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-23 Thread Geoff - Creative Living
Hi folks As an alternative, I worked briefly on a native PHP Petri-net workflow engine with a guy called Tony Marston before we parted ways. He has written it up here: http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/workflow.html I wrote to Tony a couple of months ago and he said that his

Re: [PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-22 Thread Jochem Maas
Geoff - Creative Living wrote: Hi Does anyone know of an open source or commercial php library for parsing decision tables? Or failing that, a more general business rules parser? I can't find anything on the usual php script sites. Unless I'm missing something, this seems to be a gap - in the

Re: [PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-22 Thread Geoff - Creative Living
Hi Mike I'm not aware of any. I am kind of developing my own for my current Materials System. Sounds as though, like me, you might just get away with a decision table parser rather than a fully-fledged corporate rules engine. though your application is a bit more complex than ours. It's

RE: [PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] It's surprising to me that we are faced with rolling our own or working with Java - suggests that PHP still has a bit to go as a platform for serious business systems. [/snip] The lack of a decision table/business rule parser does not suggest that PHP has a way to go as a platform for

Re: [PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-22 Thread Jochem Maas
Geoff - Creative Living wrote: Hi Mike I'm not aware of any. I am kind of developing my own for my current Materials System. Sounds as though, like me, you might just get away with a decision table parser rather than a fully-fledged corporate rules engine. though your application is a bit

Re: [PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-22 Thread James Kaufman
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 02:49:41PM +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: Geoff - Creative Living wrote: Hi Mike As an alternative, I worked briefly on a native PHP Petri-net workflow engine with a guy called Tony Marston before we parted ways. He has written it up here:

[PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-21 Thread Geoff - Creative Living
Hi Does anyone know of an open source or commercial php library for parsing decision tables? Or failing that, a more general business rules parser? I can't find anything on the usual php script sites. Unless I'm missing something, this seems to be a gap - in the Java world there is a wide choice

Re: [PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-21 Thread Geoff - Creative Living
Mike How about jBPM (http://www.jboss.org/products/jbpm)? I looked at it, briefly, awhile back. May implement it in the next release of my company software. Anyone have any experience with it? There's a wide range of Java solutions: http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/rule_engines/view

Re: [PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
I'm not aware of any. I am kind of developing my own for my current Materials System. We purchase aluminum and glass from multiple suppliers. The costing of those materials can vary supplier to supplier. I'm working on an interface that will basically let the Material dept work with a Part Profile