Re: Run PHP script from RPG

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't understand your scenario.  You say there's an antenna plugged 
into an RS232 port on the PC.  Then you say you want to start the 
complete app from the AS/400 and take control over the reading process. 
That makes sense.

From there, I get lost.   Obviously, you need some sort of 
communication between the PC and the "AS/400" (which hopefully isn't 
REALLY an AS/400, but something a bit more modern)

You say something about data queue support for PHP on i5/OS, and that 
does exist, but all languages on i5/OS support data queues, so I guess I 
don't understand...

What program will run on the PC to read the RS232 port?  Is this a 
program you're writing, or is it something supplied by the RFID vendor, 
or how does that work?

How will that program communicate with i5/OS?  Will it open an HTTP 
request (is that why you're using PHP?)  Or is it using a socket?  or a 
data queue, or what?

If it's using a data queue, why not read that data queue directly from 
your RPG program?  Why bother with a PHP in the middle?

If it's using an HTTP request, then I can see where PHP might simplify 
things a bit -- but then why not have the PHP program write the data to 
the database (LF, was it) instead of calling back & forth with an RPG 
program?

I must not understand your scenario at all?


Bernd Dworrak wrote:
> What I really want to do is bulk reading RFID chips with control over
> the AS/400.
>
> The scenario is as follows:
>
> An antenna is plugged into the RS232 com port of a PC that reads the
> chips.
>
> I want to start the complete app from the AS/400 and take control over
> the reading process from the AS/400.
>
> The 'chip numbers' are key field of an LF on the AS/400. After the chips
> are read an update to the database has to be made.
>
> Thought I could do this via DTAQ support for PHP script but I want to
> start the script that runs on the AS/400 (Zend) from the RPG program
> that makes all error checks and the update. 
>
> Do you think this could work?