PHP --> JAVA Interface

[Anon]

Does anyone know if it is possible to interface a Java applet to Php?

I am trying to retrieve information from an SQL database into a Java Applet, via Php on the Apache server. (all on Win 98).

Java --> PHP --> SQL --> PHP --> Java

Is it possible to get the Java applet to make this kind of interface with Php?

Cheers, James.

[Anon]

did you need to go through php? .. or do you just want to do a SQL connection? ... did you look at JDBC? ...

[Anon]

Well I am hoping to retrive data from an SQL database to present a webpage,,,,but the webpage also has an embedded applet which needs some of the data from the SQL.

So going via PHP means that I can prepare the html presentation according to the SQL data,,, but also add some parameter tags for the applet to read.

This is not a problem, but getting the data to feed back in the opposite direction again (i.e. applet to PHP) is being a problem for me.

Do you know of any way I can achieve this by getting the applet to submit a form to the action.php file?

Cheers for your help,
James.

[kbaker]

Have you connected to JDBC through PHP?

How would I do this?

I am very interested in JDBC as a more formal abstraction layer than say adodb or pear.

Is it fast/slow? Robust feature set?

Thanks

Kevin