Re: Q's for Jason or Daniel

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jason Pincin wrote:

> > 4) Failing that, can someone write a simple  PHP script that
> > allows me to use things like create_object(), fetch_object(),
> > move_object(), via a CGI URL interface- ie not a form?.  Kinda like:
> > command.php?action=create_object&location=1.2.10&name=aturner&type=8 etc...
> 
> Good idea.  Give us the list of functions you want to access.

Uh, all of them?  Initially, all I'll need is the functions to create,
delete, and move documents, wether they are internal or external.  User
stuff can come later.
 
> > The idea is that I can utilize the PHP Object code via Perl by talking to
> > Apache.  The PHP should return intelligent error codes. I've decided that
> > writing my own set of objects for Perl is too much right now to go live by
> > Feb 1st and this should do nicely.
> 
> I think ever duplicating the objects in Perl would be sort of a waste of
> time.  I like your above idea much if we can't find a CLI PHP script
> engine.

I don't know about a waste of time, but it is a time suck.  Pain in the
ass too.

> > Basically for #3 and #4 I'd need everything one would need to manage the
> > KBObjects/ExternalLinks tables for documents (internal pages and things
> > mirrored locally/remotely).  I might give it a go myself, but I need to
> > learn the PHP objects which I'm a bit rusty at and someone else would
> > probably do it about 10x faster.
> 
> I'll give it some thought today... maybe play around... see if I can get
> something for you to test... not promising anything BY today... as my new
> CPU is arriving at noon... BUT... I'll try :).

yeah, yeah.  Mr. "I got a cooler computer than you". :)

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