Hello List, I thought of sharing my experience of writing a controller to remotely control a robot through a webserver using PHP. Though I could not use PHP alone to do the entire job due the high delay it takes to connect to the telnet port on the robot, (I adopted the PHPTelnet class written by Antone Roundy - http://www.geckotribe.com/php-telnet/), I could not resist using it for some part of the application. So the model I used for my purpose is this: Browser ---------> WebServer ---------> Java --------> Robot AJAX PHP I used PHP to communicate between the Java program which I run in the background and the AJAX calls from the browser. This setup works fine for my purposes and satisifies the strict time constraints. If someone has a better idea of implementing this thing in PHP, please do let me know your comments. There is a lot more to do in this project and I hope to make use of PHP a lot along the way. This is a NSF funded project and this work will be published in some leading journals. What I am excited about is the prospect of putting in a word about PHP in these journals, since as far as I know, it is not too well known in the academic circles. Regards, Prathap -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
