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

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

2002-09-22 Thread Michael Sims
I have a few application design questions that I was hoping someone might have some thoughts on. I'll warn you in advance that this post is kinda long winded. I'll try my best not to use two many trendy buzzwords, but I may not be able to avoid it. :-) I work for a real-estate company and one o