[omniORB] ORB and PHP

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 19 October, Robert Sander wrote:

> I tried to use CORBA from PHP about one and a half year ago.
> 
> To say it simple, it was quite a mess. I needed to code my own PHP
> module and to wrap the CORBA calls in it. You also need a C ORB
> like orbit for that, if You do not want to mix C++ within C, because
> the PHP API is only C.

Why would you not want to mix C and C++?  omniORBpy interfaces Python,
written in C, to omniORB, written in C++. It would be possible to do a
full-blown PHP ORB, based on omniORB, using the same sort of approach
as omniORBpy. It's not a small job, though.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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