Re: XML-RPC library for PHP

[Noboru Yamamoto <noboru.yamamoto@kek.jp>]

Hi Renata,

Renata Krempaska wrote:
> Hi Noboru,
>
> we developed in SLS a php module which allows to talk to an EPICS 
> channel from a php page. You just need to load this module in your php 
> code and call ca functions (caget, caput or camonitor). The usage is 
> very simle and performace very good.
> You can download the module and get the documentation on:
> http://www.sls.psi.ch/controls/help/howto/php_epics.html
>
> Hope this helps. Best regards,
> Renata and Alian

Thank you very much for the information. CA access from PHP is quite 
intersting. We will look at your code.

We are not only live data on the EPICS database but also archived 
(history) data of channels. That is the reason why we use XML-RPC data 
server come with latest Channel Archiver tool.

Our users like a web interface provided by CGIExport in old Channel 
Archiver to check the archived data. Unfortunately, latest Archiver does 
not support CGIExport anymore, so we are developing the replacement of 
CGIExport using Apache/PHP/gnuplot.

Thank you very much again for your help.

Regards,

Noboru



> Noboru Yamamoto wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are now developing a Web application which display a graph of Channel
> > Archiver
> > XML-RPC data server. It try to imitate CGIExport in the older version of
> > Channel Archiver.
> >
> > Mr. Susumu Yoshida wrote a program using Apache+PHP+gnuplot and we
> > started the
> > evaluation of program. Soon, we noticed that XML-RPC library we used in
> > PHP is not
> > as fast as that in Perl or Python.2.3.x.
> >
> > After studying the Web for a while, we found that there are several
> > version of XML-RPC library
> > for PHP.
> >
> > Does anyone know which version of these libraries is the fastest and
> > reliable
> > Your comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you for your cooperation.
> >
> > Noboru Yamamoto
> > KEKB control group
> > KEK, JAPAN
> >