Java - PHP

http://quercus.caucho.com/

I enjoy developing JEE, but am kind of tired of JSP and other Template Engines. Why can there be just something that my designers can just do it without coming to me all the time? I am hoping Quercus (A Java based PHP engine) comes to rescue!

and: http://fabien.duminy.ifrance.com/blog/archives/2007/08/entry_14.html

I had to copy three jar files:
resin-util.jar. quercus.jar, and javamail.jar; so, Tomcat does not compliant about javax/mail/MessagingException

Also, I copied the php/quercus-war to webapps (since I am lazy). Works!

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On Windows, this seems to be another solution. Never tried yet!
http://nexus.zteo.com/2008/02/15/how-to-setup-php5-with-tomcat-5/

Okay - my vote to CakePhp

I can not aruge that Simple is Success. Once agian, for one of my new projects, CakePhp is the winner after looking at Symfony. Yes, Sumfony is very promising and (personally) it rocks. But, it is complicate comparing to CakePhp. CakePhp takes no time to get started. Actually, 15 minutes after seeing the blogger tutorial! It is really awesome with the other Helper for Ajax and For Smarty fans, SmartyView is available, too.

• http://www.cakephp.org/
• http://book.cakephp.org/complete/305/the-manual

PHP MVC Frameworks

This might be an old list:

http://solarphp.com/home/
http://www.cakephp.org/
http://www.mojavi.org/
http://www.agavi.org/
http://amb.sourceforge.net/
http://www.phpmvc.net/
https://www.phrame.org/
http://mojavelinux.com/projects/studs/
http://www.phpwact.org/php/mvc_frameworks

and,

• Taking a look at ten different PHP frameworks http://www.phpit.net/article/ten-different-php-frameworks/
• Top 10 PHP MVC frameworks
  http://www.mustap.com/phpzone_post_73_top-10-php-mvc-frameworks
  

PRADO - A PHP Framework does AJAX (and much more)

I am having hard time finding a framework for my PHP projects. Someone mentioned Prado at the conference; so, I took a look and it is actually pretty neat. I probably change my mind of moving to Rails from PHP now -- sorry, I am still sticking to Java/J2EE.

Prado (http://pradosoft.com/) is actually Open Source PHP Framework:

PRADO^TM is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5.

Here is my day one of Prado:

1. Download the prado-3.1.0RC.r1951.zip - it is not stable, but with most of new features. My project is new anyway - who cares..
2. Going thru the demo:
   http://pradosoft.com/demos/blog-tutorial/?page=Day1.Setup
   I do not plan to go thru them all, but some, I think!
3. Okay: php prado-cli.php -c . works; so, I assume my site is Prado enabled now.
   
   FYI: I am on OS X 10.4 Mac Book. Apache2.2+PHP5+Mysql MacPorts. I do not like the ones coming from Apple.
   
4. to be continued ..
   

The marriage of Java and PHP

While some people are still debating on what web programming language to use, why you have to pick ..

http://phpbuilder.com/manual/en/ref.java.php#java.servlet

(There are two possible ways to bridge PHP and Java: you can either integrate PHP into a Java Servlet environment, which is the more stable and efficient solution, or integrate Java support into PHP. The former is provided by a SAPI module that interfaces with the Servlet server, the latter by this Java extension. )

or

http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/