Awesome, I am all for replacing the existing... "stuff" ! -Brian
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! > > > > I'm finishing up the proxy and rpc parts this week, once that's done and > I've been able to validate that everything works as its intended too, I'll > submit the patch (read: complete new php codebase) for inclusion. Once > that's accepted I'll start on filing the bugs etc, it'll be nice to get > this > rolling and get everyone interested informed and involved! > > > > Once that's done, it'll become interesting what other OpenSocial sites are > interested in feature wise so I can take that into account with further > development, so any information on this topic you can relay to me by that > time will be quite useful :) > > > > Chewy, if your ever close to / in the Netherlands, drop me a line ok :) > > > > -- Chris > > > > _____ > > From: Patrick Chanezon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 22:37 > To: [email protected] > Cc: Matthew (Chewy) Trewhella; Dan Peterson; Chris Chabot > Subject: Re: php shindig - progress report > > > > Congratulations and thanks for the port Chris. > Chewy and myself are developer advocates with Google. > We have been in touch with many social sites who want to implement > OpenSocial and are written in PHP: I will point them to this thread and > some > of them may offer help. > When your code is checked in, it would be good if you could log bugs for > areas that need work, in order to show new commiters on what work is > needed > for Shindig PHP. > Don't hesitate to ping us if you need any help. > Chewy is based in Europe and may be able to meet with you face to face if > you want. > > P@ > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > Since no one likes to hear "it's being worked on" without being able > to see it, and i now have the first visible workings of a php version > i thought i'd post a bit of a progress report. > > I've been working for the last 7 or 8 days on a php port of the java > shindig code, I've chosen to follow the structure as closely as > possible where the language differences allows for it to make > supporting the same features and having the same behavior easier. Now > it's been a bit of a challenge, partially because the last time I've > read any java code is 8 years behind me, and partially since it's a > huge undertaking to port an entire large feature set and service > without being able to test it until all the components are done, and > php being a completely different environment then the java/jetty one. > > I've now reached the point where the basic structure is working, and > it successfully renders the todo.xml gadget into a valid and correct > gadget. > > I'm still working on the js, rpc, proxy and gadget token bits so their > not included in this, also the remote content gadgets are not > supported yet (though that will be very quick to follow). > > I expect to have those lacking bits done in the near future, and > combined with a good bit of testing i hope to have a 'patch' ready for > submission soonish (and i need to formalize the permission to submit > it under the apache license with my employer, but that is a mere > formality). > > Feature wise it's completely compatible to the java cousin, including > the 'features', message bundle, etc support and only the GadgetServer, > web service and caching parts are different from the java version (in > memory caching for instance couldn't work in a multi process php > environment), and i think i'll soon add a few more php specific > optimizations soon to speed the whole thing up a bit as well. > > The code i'm using for porting is from feb 14th, i'll evaluate the > patches that happen in the meantime once i've got everything done, > since doing both would be to much of a strain progress right now. > > A working demo can be seen here: > > http://shindig.chabotc.com/ifr/?url=http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/ > todo.xml<http://shindig.chabotc.com/ifr/?url=http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/todo.xml> > > And the code-so-far for those who are interested in a sneak preview of > it is here: > http://www.chabotc.com/php-shindig.tar.gz > > Please do keep in mind that it's still work in progress, so i know > there's no gadget container yet, no proxy implementation etc; If you > just want a fully functional php shindig server, please wait a little > more since this is nothing but a code preview :) > > -- Chris > > > > > -- > Patrick Chanezon, Google Developer Advocate > http://wordpress.chanezon.com/ > http://code.google.com/apis/ > >
