Michael Langford wrote: > OT Aside: > Anyone ever used PSP pages? Seems like a good substitute for PHPish > tasks, but I've not seen many users. >
I have, but I find generating my HTML with classes I wrote to be more to my tastes. I did PHP for years and I'm just not a fan of the way it mixes code and HTML. I think that model works better when you have someone doing the layout and someone else doing the server side code. > As to the actual question, PHP can call python through a variety of > means. One such one I'm familiar with is XMLRPC. > > PHP: > http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/ > > Python: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-pyth10.html (servers at > the bottom). > > XMLRPC can be slooooooooooooow. Make sure its fast enough for what > you're doing by running a benchmark. But if it is fast enough, the > python libraries at least are quite magically simple as far as cross > language programming can be. > > --Michael > > On Feb 4, 2008 10:43 AM, Chris Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sunday 03 February 2008 17:35, GTXY20 wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> First off let me say how helpful and informative this mailing list is. It >>> is very much appreciated. >>> >>> Anyway, I am looking for some suggestions for reading up on how to call >>> Python from PHP scripts, specifically calling from a PHP web application - >>> PHP will call python script with some arguments and python will run on the >>> server and return the results within another PHP page. >>> >>> Once again thanks. >>> >>> GTXY20. >>> >> You can also use python in server-side scripting, at least with apache and >> mod_python. You can use it the same way as PHP. This might not be suitable >> for what you need to do, but if you could do it this way, it would probably >> be faster. >> >> Cheers >> Chris Fuller >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
