On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Cesar D. Rodas <sad...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In the presentation with Gearman you have a C extension for PHP, and
> you code the daemon itself in PHP. My idea it's different. Let's put
> it simple. I am planning code a server (similar to a web server,
> Apache) written in C or C++ that contains PHP embed (or its own SAPI),
> with an efficient protocol (no xml, no http) to call PHP functions
> that he contains. The protocol probably would use my binary
> serialization class and submit objects
> (http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/5242.html) but I don't know
> yet.

So basically a php executable daemon you could connect to and if it
was plaintext protocol type:

<?php
echo "hi";
?>

and it would execute?

> In typical installation you would have many workers, and one "master"
> that will be a mere php application with web interface probably that
> would submit PHP code to the workers. The code will be raw PHP, I mean
> no special API would be needed to export any function, my goal it's
> keep it simple to migrate.
>
> The final client wouldn't connect to the master, they will have a pull
> of worker and they will pick up one randomly (as many people does with
> memcached).
>
> Is it clear enough?

I think so. Although I'm not quite sure I see the need for it, when
solutions like Gearman exist and are already built-in with many
features like transactions (I believe it's in there) and
first-come-first-serve and possible all-workers-execute mentalities...
why not leverage the Gearman's projects learnings and now newfound
speed in C...?

To me this sounds like a possible security hole as someone could write
a client to basically execute arbitrary PHP on any server, if I
understood it right.

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