I posted this in another thread and was surprised at the response, so I'm starting a dedicated thread...
A while back, for my own purposes, I hired a consultant (well-respected on this board) to port some code to PB/Win. The end result is that I have the ability compile PowerBASIC DLLs that work as "php extensions". That means that my web pages can call my DLL's functions with no more php coding than...
I have used it with both WIMP and WAMP, and it works like a charm. It works with both PHP4 and PHP5, but it probably requires a Windows web server. (Does anybody know whether or not the *nix flavors of php support Win32 DLLs?) It's different from CGI in that the DLL is always in memory (the web server's memory) so there's no load delay.
Let me be clear up front, as much as I love this community, this wasn't a trivial project and I'm not likely to donate the code to the public domain. It's more likely to be an addition to my company's "Development Tools" product line, or perhaps another business relationship could be worked out.
Does this technology sound interesting to anybody else?
-- Eric Pearson, Perfect Sync, Inc.
A while back, for my own purposes, I hired a consultant (well-respected on this board) to port some code to PB/Win. The end result is that I have the ability compile PowerBASIC DLLs that work as "php extensions". That means that my web pages can call my DLL's functions with no more php coding than...
Code:
<p> [b]<?php echo [i]MyPBFunction[/i]('Param1','Param2','Param3',[etc]); ?>[/b] </p>
Let me be clear up front, as much as I love this community, this wasn't a trivial project and I'm not likely to donate the code to the public domain. It's more likely to be an addition to my company's "Development Tools" product line, or perhaps another business relationship could be worked out.
Does this technology sound interesting to anybody else?
-- Eric Pearson, Perfect Sync, Inc.
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