Open source is … well … open
In the linked forum thread Alvero reports that he has discovered that Eduard Koucky is unavailable to continue work on the outstanding PHPRFC project that he has built so generously over the years. I believe that this is a great opportunity for someone to stand up and take over the reins and improve the connector with the new features that the new RFC connector provides. There are great new features available in the latest RFC connector as anyone who has been following the NetWeaver RFC gives the Next generation Ruby and Perl Connectors by Piers Harding could atest. The channels are RFC SDK group opens “talks” with RFC Connector developers. The opportunity is available, so lets go for it.
I was going to write a weblog to talk about the SAPRFC, but you win the match -;)
I just downloaded the source code at home...I'm not very proficient on C or C++, but sure I'm going to do my best -:D
I'm hope more people can join us and we can get this project going again -;)
Greetings,
Blag.
It is going to be a complete rewrite to take into UNICODE support, deep table support and string and xstring support.
PHP6 will be supporting unicode so an official release would have to wait until that point but there are beta versions of PHP6 available from php.net CVS that one highly skilled C programmer could use.
Nigel
Other than that the unicode characters would have to be treated as binary data and rendered like this => http://www.randomchaos.com/documents/?source=php_and_unicode
Other things to watch out for is making the extension thread-safe (unless a whole page action is thread local ? - I dont know what PHPs threading model is)
Cheers.
Greetings,
Blag.
See his post for details
sapnwrfc for PHP
Nigel