[SHINDIG-1338] using shindig in a standalone PHP server : a minimal patch

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.2
• Component/s: PHP
• Labels: long polling server standalone
• Environment: GNU/Linux
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Loic Dachary
• Created: 20/May/10 14:31
• Updated: 05/Feb/14 22:31
• Resolved: 05/Feb/14 22:31

Description

Hi,

While implementing a standalone PHP server to handle a large number of simultaneous makeRequest with a small memory footprint ( necessary for web applications using long polling ), I had to apply the attached patch to PHP shindig to make it work. In a nutshell the patch addresses the following issues:

• wrap echo / print / die functions so that they can be overriden by the standalone PHP server
• cache some objects used during the call of the doPost function of ProxyHandler so that they are not rebuilt when doPost is called a second time
• fix a few PHP deprecation required by E_STRICT
• add the public_cer configuration string to use instead of the computed string based on HTTP_HOST

I believe this fix is simple enough to be applied to later versions of PHP shindig. However, because a number of servers are probably still running on PHP shindig 1.0, publishing a patch against this specific version might be useful.

A practical use of this patch can be found at http://opensocial.pokersource.info/server