Thread: PHP as PL

PHP as PL

From
Rod Kreisler
Date:
Does anyone know of an individual/group/whatever working on a project to
allow PHP to be used as a PL for Postgres?

Thanks,
Rod


Re: PHP as PL

From
Joe Conway
Date:
Rod Kreisler wrote:
> Does anyone know of an individual/group/whatever working on a project to
> allow PHP to be used as a PL for Postgres?
>
> Thanks,
> Rod

I've discussed it with Christopher Kings-Lynne a little while back. I
don't think it would be too terribly hard to do, using the new php-embed
option, and PL/R as starting point -- but I probably won't have the time
to get started until after the Postgres 7.4 beta freeze.

Joe


Re: PHP as PL

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Rod Kreisler wrote:
> Does anyone know of an individual/group/whatever working on a project to
> allow PHP to be used as a PL for Postgres?

No, never heard of one, but I think MySQL may have one.

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Re: PHP as PL

From
Arjen van der Meijden
Date:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Rod Kreisler wrote:
> > Does anyone know of an individual/group/whatever working on
> a project
> > to
> > allow PHP to be used as a PL for Postgres?
>
> No, never heard of one, but I think MySQL may have one.

MySQL a PL ??
I don't think so, last time I looked it wasn't possible and it wouldn't
be untill the 5.x releases afaik.

Regards,

Arjen


Re: PHP as PL

From
Ian Barwick
Date:
On Sunday 06 April 2003 11:13, Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Rod Kreisler wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of an individual/group/whatever working on
> >
> > a project
> >
> > > to
> > > allow PHP to be used as a PL for Postgres?
> >
> > No, never heard of one, but I think MySQL may have one.
>
> MySQL a PL ??
> I don't think so, last time I looked it wasn't possible and it wouldn't
> be untill the 5.x releases afaik.

Don't know about PHP but Perl as PL for MySQL pops up from time
to time:
http://www.mysql.com/portal/sites/item-68.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/24/1253228&mode=thread

Doesn't seem to have made the big time yet though ;-).

Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net


Re: PHP as PL

From
Jan Wieck
Date:
Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Rod Kreisler wrote:
> > Does anyone know of an individual/group/whatever working on a project to
> > allow PHP to be used as a PL for Postgres?
>
> No, never heard of one, but I think MySQL may have one.

What? I heard their plan was to use perl for user defined functions a
while back. At that time of course without server side data access
inside the same transaction, but things might have changed.

Anyhow, I think PHP as a procedural language inside PostgreSQL would
make a lot of sense. It seems natural to use the same programming
language when trying to split up the business logic between the middle
tear layer (Apache/PHP) and the database.


Jan

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Re: PHP as PL

From
Rod Kreisler
Date:
At 01:15 PM 4/6/2003 -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
>Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Rod Kreisler wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of an individual/group/whatever working on a project to
> > > allow PHP to be used as a PL for Postgres?
> >
> > No, never heard of one, but I think MySQL may have one.
>
>What? I heard their plan was to use perl for user defined functions a
>while back. At that time of course without server side data access
>inside the same transaction, but things might have changed.
>
>Anyhow, I think PHP as a procedural language inside PostgreSQL would
>make a lot of sense. It seems natural to use the same programming
>language when trying to split up the business logic between the middle
>tear layer (Apache/PHP) and the database.
>
>
>Jan

When the first Zend Engine was released, Zeev (or Andi) mentioned that they
were is discussion with MySQL AB to have PHP as a PL for MySQL.  Since
then, not a word.  MySQL only mentions that they plan to have PL support in
v5 but no mention of what language that will use....


Re: PHP as PL

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Rod Kreisler wrote:
> At 01:15 PM 4/6/2003 -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> >Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > Rod Kreisler wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know of an individual/group/whatever working on a project to
> > > > allow PHP to be used as a PL for Postgres?
> > >
> > > No, never heard of one, but I think MySQL may have one.
> >
> >What? I heard their plan was to use perl for user defined functions a
> >while back. At that time of course without server side data access
> >inside the same transaction, but things might have changed.
> >
> >Anyhow, I think PHP as a procedural language inside PostgreSQL would
> >make a lot of sense. It seems natural to use the same programming
> >language when trying to split up the business logic between the middle
> >tear layer (Apache/PHP) and the database.
> >
> >
> >Jan
>
> When the first Zend Engine was released, Zeev (or Andi) mentioned that they
> were is discussion with MySQL AB to have PHP as a PL for MySQL.  Since
> then, not a word.  MySQL only mentions that they plan to have PL support in
> v5 but no mention of what language that will use....

Yes, that is what I remember.

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