PHP - Java Sessions Compatability?

Anon

Just curious if there is any way for PHP to read session objects created in Java Servlets? I have a couple of sites that are Servlet driven but have a friend or two that do PHP & asked to help out. Problem is the sites security is a session objects so Im afraid that if they spend to long in a php driven program their session will have expired when they come back into a servlet. While Im here, Im also very interested in learning PHP....seems like a very cool language....Can anyone recommend a good book to get started?? Thanks for any & all help you can give.

Anon

I don't know anything about the servlets, but if you're looking for a good php book check out the Visual Quickstart Guide to PHP. Gets you goin quickley. There's a whole series of visual quickstarts.
http://www.peachpit.com/books/catalog/72787.html

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About the servlets: no clue. switch to PHP and live a heppier life.

About the books, they are expensive and outdated when printed. Instead read the manual, especially the annotations in the manual. Read this forum, read the examples that are abundant everywhere, read devshed.com

PHP is not java, PHP is actually understandable.

Anon

Sorry you guys feel like this about Java but you all have to admit it's 1000 times more powerful than any other language out there. Hell even the space station & the hubbel telescope run on Java.....I think PHP is cool & from what Ive heard its easy but nothing will ever take the place of Java for me!

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Java is a nice language if you use it as a platform-dependant language like C or C++. If you start using it as a cross-platform thing it begins to suck really bad.

Personally I never quite understood why CGI existed. Why fork a new process for every page? Servelets handle it a little better but still pretty messy.

At the moment you really can't beat PHP when it comes to web-scripting.

BTW: the fact that that some major corporation uses a technology means nothing.
90% of the time it is an executive decision, taken by an suit who heard a cool sales-pitch but never actually touched the stuff.