can php interface with a C++ daemon

[deerthunder]

Much thanks in advance for guidance on this -

I want to create a web application, with the back-end on linux. One part will be a process written in C++ (the developer feels the computations are complex), and the rest will be a database storing constraints, HTML entry and report screens, and I'm thinking PHP might glue it all together.

I've done socket programming for communication between C++ processes on solaris, can I do the same in PHP - or use some other interface technique?

I reaize this is a broad question. Any articles or just key concepts to research further would be terrific.

Thanks a bunch.
DT

[su1d]

I think a standard SVR4 interprocess communication (IPC) would be the best solution for your problem. If a PHP script needs to communicate with a daemon directly, the shared memory (php_shmop) would be a solution.
Although, both php script and a daemon could communicate with each other via a database: the daemon stores some info using MySQL-client lib and PHP shows it on the web.