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Big Bank PHP Client
===================

Overview
--------

This is a pair of very simple PHP scripts to demonstrate how the Accounts service
that the C++ Big Bank sample exposes can be used from within the PHP scripting 
language. 

bigwelcome.php
  A bootstrap script that shows a form and allows the user to press a button
  in order to invoke the bigaccount.php script

bigaccount.php
  Makes a call to a locally installed BigBank Accounts service. The script 
  shows how to use PHP SDO and SOAP extensions to construct the call 
  and interpret the result. 
  
As this is a very simple test client once you have reached bigaccount.php you are done. 
So there are no further buttons other than the browser back button.

Installation
------------

This assumes that you have the BigBank sample runnig as a web service in your local
Axis2C container at http://localhost:9090/axis2/services/AccountService

To run the php scripts requires some configuration and setup of a php runtime with 
the SDO and SimpleXML extensions enabled. The bits you will need are:

Apache web server - http://httpd.apache.org/ (I'm currently at 2.0.55)
PHP 5.1.6 - http://www.php.net/downloads.php (I'm currently at 5.1.6)
PHP SDO - http://pecl.php.net/package/sdo (I'm currently at 1.0.3)

Windows 
-------
If you are on windows you can get binary builds from http://www.php.net/downloads.php. 
For SDO you need two dlls as followd 

php_sdo.dll            http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_sdo.dll
php_sdo_das_xml.dll    http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_sdo_das_xml.dll

I copied these to my php5.1.6/ext dir ( php_soap.dll is already there)

And added the following to my php.ini file (having already renamed php.ini-recommended to 
php.ini of course)

extension=php_soap.dll
extension=php_sdo.dll
extension=php_sdo_das_xml.dll

I also changed the extension_dir directive to point to my extensions directory:

extension_dir="C:/simon/apps/php5.1.6/ext"

When I ask PHP to list what modules are active in my version of PHP I get the 
following

C:\simon\apps\php5.1.6>php -m
[PHP Modules]
bcmath
calendar
com_dotnet
ctype
date
dom
ftp
hash
iconv
libxml
odbc
pcre
Reflection
sdo
sdo_das_xml
session
SimpleXML
soap
SPL
standard
tokenizer
wddx
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
zlib

[Zend Modules]

Of particular relevance to these scripts note that soap, sdo and sd_das_xml are active. 

Other Platforms
---------------

If your on on another platform, such as Linux, then you will need to compile the
SDO extension. The documentation at the SDO extension page (http://livedocs.phpdoc.info/index.php?l=en&q=ref.sdo)
is currently a bit missleading and needs updating. What you need to do is do a 
phpize build of the SDO PECL extension. This is discussed in the SDO documentation
but is also discussed in many other places, for example, http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.phpize.php. 
Here is not the time to go into the details of how to build PHP extensions using 
phpize but if you are familar with the process I use the following configure line
on windows. 

cscript configure.js --with-extra-includes=c:\simon\projects\tuscany\php\win32build\include;
                     c:\simon\apps\libxml2-2.6.23.win32\include;
                     c:\simon\apps\iconv-1.9.1.win32\include 
                     --with-extra-libs=c:\simon\projects\tuscany\php\win32build\lib;
                     c:\simon\apps\libxml2-2.6.23.win32\lib;
                     c:\simon\apps\iconv-1.9.1.win32\lib 
                     --enable-sdo=shared 
                     --enable-soap 
                     
There are no newlines in my command line by the way. I've just included them
here so you can see the command. 

Running
-------

You need to configure Apache to run PHP of course. This is well documented but this
is what I put at the end of httpd.conf

# PHP5 Support
LoadModule php5_module "C:/simon/apps/php5.1.6/php5apache2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

# configure the path to php.ini
PHPIniDir "C:/simon/apps/php5.1.6"

Having set up Apache all that remains is to 

- put the bigbank.phpwsclient directory in your web server's root documents directory
- start up the Axis2C runtime configured to run BigBank
- point your browser at http://myserver:port/bigbank.phpwsclient/bigwelcome.php

You should now be able to press the "GetAccount" button and see the values
returned from the BigBank SCA application.