Re: PHP and Applescript
Re: PHP and Applescript
- Subject: Re: PHP and Applescript
- From: Brian Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 21:39:57 -0800 (PST)
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Grace Finn wrote:
I originally tried
this with acgi dispatcher and it worked OK, but I could not get Windows users
to stop looking for the acgi file. Someone told me to try php instead.
I don't understand. You put an HTML form on the web. It uses a .php script
or an .acgi 'script' to turn that into commands to the robot .. either way
the mechanism is visible in the form action. They're roughly equivalent,
except that it seems your robot-control app is AE aware, so you have to
turn commands into AppleEvents somewhere along the way. I'd stick with AS.
If you can run it directly from AS (without the web), you can begin to
'webify' it by moving actions into your .acgi. I think it'll be much saner
than php.
You'll see random probes of all sorts on your server if you're looking at
log files. These should tell you that it's important not to (for example,
take raw text input off a form and hand it off to PHP's exec function)
If you've used acgi Dispatcher you've seen James Sentman's 'itunes.acgi'
script. That's basically a remote control for a music-player robot, yes?
It doesn't make much sense to let folks world-wide control your iTunes
playback, but it works. Assuming your robot plays in front of a webcam or
some such, it should be possible to do something similar.
-b.johnson, dept of architecture, university of washington, seattle
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