On 13/11/14 03:57, Larry Martell wrote:
We were all making this much harder than it is. I ended up doing this:wp = urllib.request.urlopen('http://php_page/?' + request.POST.urlencode()) pw = wp.read()
I was about that suggest that actually, just be careful to escape things properly. Although I would recommend to pass the parameters as request body rather than as query parameters. Going through the web server via HTTP is most definitely going to be even more expensive than with pipes, but if performance is the least of your concern, then this is probably the easiest way to include things between languages.
Yet another methods of mixing languages is to use iframes and to built your frontend as HTML with that queries Web APIs with AJAX but this relies on the client side to do the inclusion.
As your goal is to eventually port an existing site to Python, I would highly recommend against using Django. Django, as a full-featured framework, is quite opinionated on how to do things, especially in regards to database design. While this is great for a new projects as it enforces certain well-tested patterns, this can be a pain when you need to use existing tables from the PHP application. Also, if your old application database access is written in SQL (i.e. with PHP mysql or mysqli driver), it might be less friction to port to SQLAlchemy Core rather than jumping straight to a full-fledged ORM, eventually you can slowly take the next step to port SQLA Core to SQLA ORM. Or you can mix and match Core and ORM with SQLAlchemy (with some care); Django is much less flexible about mixing plain SQL with ORM.
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