[opencms-dev] Connecting to mySQL with php pages

[Joe Desbonnet]

You may have a problem here -- OpenCms does not handle PHP. Not
directly anyways.

However all is not lost. Normally OpenCms is deployed using Apache as
the front end. You could deploy your PHP on Apache and communicate
with the OpenCms part of your site via the database, cookies or other
means.  Unfortunately that means you will need to implement your site
template twice: once in OpenCms  and once for PHP.

I also googled "PHP Java" and there seems to be a few projects on
integrating the two, eg
http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/

Perhaps someone else here might have done something like this before.

Joe.


On 4/6/06, Alain Gyger <acgyger at csupomona.edu> wrote:
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> I am programming a website using html, php and a mySQL database (the classic
> LAMP setup), but with openCMS my php pages do not connect to the mySQL
> database. Is there something I need to do to get that connectivity (i.e. a
> module) or does openCMS no support mySQL connections when in preview mode?
> What I get is just the text version of the php page when I preview any page
> that calls a php file.
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> For example, my login page is login.html with a form and a submit button.
> This submit button connects to a file called login.php, which is supposed to
> connect to mySQL and authenticate the user. When I preview the login.html
> file in openCMS I can enter my login information but when I click on
> login.php I see the plain text version of that page and no other processing
> is done.
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> My setup is as follows:
>
> Gentoo
>
> Tomcat 5
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> PHP 4.4
>
> mySQL 4.1
>
> The login.php file type is set to "plain"
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>
> Thank you
>
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