| Re: Running a C++ Library Function or Executable Using PHP [message #173726 is a reply to message #173723] |
Sun, 01 May 2011 23:49   |
Robert Heller
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At Sun, 1 May 2011 15:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Peter Lauren <peterdlauren(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On May 1, 8:29=A0am, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote:
>> At Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:54:02 -0700 (PDT) Peter Lauren <peterdlau...@gmail=
> .com> wrote:
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>>> On Apr 30, 2:05=3DA0pm, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote:
>>>> At Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Peter Lauren <peterdlau...@g=
> mail=3D
>>> .com> wrote:
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>>>> > I have an object library from code that was written in C++. =3DA0Is=
> there
>>>> > a PHP call that would enable me to run a function from the library,=
> or
>>>> > a C++ derived executable, from a web page?
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>>>> If the library is on the server, than you can look at SWIG
>>>> (www.swig.org) to create a wrapper module. =3DA0If the C++ executable=
> is on
>>>> the server, you can use the exec() call to run it from php.
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>>>> If the library or executable is on the *client*, then you need to run=
> or
>>>> call it from JavaScript (I think SWIG can build wrappers for JavaScri=
> pt
>>>> as well as PHP).
>>
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > Peter.
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>>> Thanks for the info. Robert but it would appear that C++ is not one of
>>> the languages that is supported by SWIG although SWIG is implemented
>>> in C++.
>>> http://www.swig.org/compat.html#SupportedLanguages
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>> SWIG DOES support C++! =A0You are misunderstanding the above URL. =A0It i=
> s
>> the list of supported *scripting* languages (PHP is supported as of
>> swig-1.3.11). =A0There is never a reason to write a wrapper for C++ for
>> calling C++ functions. =A0SWIG generates wrappers for *scripting
>> languates* (such as PHP) to call *compiled* languages including *both*
>> C AND C++ and it actually also works for FORTRAN, and likely any other
>> *compiled* language that can be called from C (like Pascal, Ada, Cobol,
>> etc.). =A0SWIG actually generats C or C++ code.
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>>> I guess I will make executables and run them using exec() from PHP.
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Peter.
>>
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> Hi Robert,
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> Thanks for the info. I have a large number of C++ classes. Would
> SWIG be the better way to go or would writing executables and using
> PHP exec() be better. I know how to do the latter but thr former my
> be more efficient.
Unless your classes are doing something really exotic, SWIG will do 99%
of the work interfacing between PHP and C++. You'd mostly just use
SWIG's 'include' statement and include the header files and SWIG will go
from there.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter.
>
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