CORBA for PHP is a PHP5 extension to use CORBA objects in PHP. If you need a PHP4 extension, Universe is the answer !

The purpose of this project is to provide:

• an IDL-to-PHP language mapping specification;
• an IDL-to-PHP language compiler(idl2php);
• a full CORBA 2.4(maybe 3.0) compliant extension.

1. IDL-to-PHP Language Mapping Specification is in alpha stage.

2. IDL-to-PHP Language Compiler(idl2php) is in alpha stage. What's working:

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  • Very simple IDL generates 100% running PHP code !

  • All MICO tests run without compiler errors.
    In some cases, the resulting PHP code is not 100% working, so the PHP language compiler(PHP code generator) needs some bug fixing.

1. CORBA for PHP is in pre-alpha stage. What's working:

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  • Get or create an instance of the ORB
  • Get an instance of a running CORBA object
  • Call methods on the remote object - at the moment only simple types(integers, floats, string and boolean) and Objects(org::omg::CORBA::Object) are allowed.
  • Oneway, in, out, inout
  • CORBA exceptions propagate and can be caught by userspace PHP script
  • Works with apache 2.0 worker (multiprocess + multithreaded)

• IDL to PHP Language Mapping Specification v0.1 in PDF format (OMG formal document format);
• Monograph: Distributed Application Support in PHP5(ZE2) with CORBA.