Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Garth Dahlstrom
If you need to bridge Perl and PHP, as suggested previously you could implement a web-service (SOAP or XML-RPC). Alternatively, you could write something Java bean and use PHP's Java support. Either of those will be costly from a performance point of view CORBA will be the same (from what I ha

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:40:06 -0500, you wrote: >I was just looking at my software architect book ... not half-way >through yet. Good book. CORBA is what is mentioned know, a bit >different than SOAP but I don't know enough of either yet to say for >sure. Something like CORBA looks good to me,

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:45:37 -0300, you wrote: >Hello, Hi Manuel... >Good idea, bad project. It is good that you diversify your knowlegde if >that helps your career but I think it is not a good idea to make >technology shift in a project that is already written and working well >in a certain

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, On 09/22/2002 03:38 PM, Michael Sims wrote: >>Basically, it's really easy to create multiple interfaces to the same >>business logic. Don't try to make things more complicated than >>necessary, and since there is no need to use multiple languages in your >>implementation, that is a comp

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Peter J. Schoenster
On 22 Sep 2002 at 13:52, Michael Sims wrote: > Well, that is basically my question. I considered both SOAP and > XML-RPC (which you mention later) but I wasn't sure what the impact on > performance would be. I am basically looking for anecdotal evidence > from people who have implemented this s

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:07:05 -0500, you wrote: >Oh yeah, avoid that at all costs. Sounds like something like SOAP etc. >could have been an answer, but then it depends on how you write your >apps. Well, that is basically my question. I considered both SOAP and XML-RPC (which you mention later

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:31:17 -0500, you wrote: >Basically, it's really easy to create multiple interfaces to the same >business logic. Don't try to make things more complicated than >necessary, and since there is no need to use multiple languages in your >implementation, that is a complexity w

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Peter J. Schoenster
On 22 Sep 2002 at 10:23, Michael Sims wrote: > of creating this application. I decided (for various reasons) to > implement this application in Perl. I began programming in Perl back in 1995. Took up mod_perl (the only way to seriously use Perl btw on web apps) but as I work primarily on virt

Re: [PHP] Designing N-tier applications in PHP (long)

2002-09-22 Thread Chris Shiflett
Michael Sims wrote: >Recently we added a new application to what we provide that allows >customers to sign up to receive new listing notifications based on a >certain set of search criteria. I was charged with the responsibility >of creating this application. I decided (for various reasons) to