Php calling Java functions.

[Anon]

Hello !
I am quite fresh into PHP4.

I need for my application to accept from an HTML form or a PHP form some input which shall be needed by a few Java classes to perform some calculations & return values to the HTML page.

For this i have installed PHP4 with IBM Java 1.18 JDK & compiled it too. I have mod_php support as weel. But now the Java coded cannot be embedded in the PHP file. PHP has support of Java only using CGI.

Question 1: How does PHP call a CGI script ?
Question 2: How does CGI call the Java classes to execute the code ?

Its would be very nice if someone could answer back using a small tiny example.

Best Regards,
Ravi

[Anon]

Ravi,

PHP has a Java and a Servlet extension which allows you to reference Java classes and reflect them into php. You must install the Java extension of php for this to work. Since it's been a couple of months, let me know if you still need help with this.

Alex