Re: Ledger SMB

[Charley Tiggs <..hidden..>]

..hidden.. wrote:
> > Folks,
> ...
> > 2.  Perl vs PHP
> >
> > My question is: any planned changes to this architecture?  If so, why?
>
> I am not a LedgerSMB developer (but probably will contribut one day when
> my new born no longer needs diapers), but boy Perl and PHP architecture
> change seems like a very daunting task!?
>
> You know, Perl can call PHP and vice versa and remotely and securely too
> and we do that on a daily bases to extract sales/new customers data from
> OSCommerce (PHP) to SL (PERL). We are now working on mapping the two
> database schemas so the online ordering system can do real time inventory
> check against the main database (SL) and the two servers are located on
> the opposite coasts.
>
> Tim

To second Tim's observation, I've just launched a custom ecommerce site 
that uses LSMB 1.2.3 and PHP 5.  We do have real time inventory working 
great with several custom views that are accessed by PHP.  Orders are 
entered into LSMB in real time using the CLI interface from PHP.  So 
far, we've only had minor issues with the entire set up and most of 
those issues were due to a lack of understanding LSMB and some of the 
assumptions it makes.

I'm working on putting some of the cli calls I make on the wiki when I 
find the time...

Charley