[Scribus] PHP extension?

[Craig Ringer]

Christian Pernot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if it would be possible to program a php extension for 
> controlling scribus, using the Scribus API, as the command line doesn't 
> exist at the moment.

Nothing would stop you in theory. Given that PHP tends to have very 
short lived processes you'd probably want to use a message passing 
design between your PHP extension and a Scribus plugin. You'd be largely 
duplicating the Python scripter plugin's functionality (probably - 
depends on your needs).

Alternately, if the Scribus Python scripter can do what you need, it's 
pretty easy to write a Python script that can remote-control Scribus 
through the scripter. You could potentially send remote requests to a 
Python script running in Scribus from PHP - say, passing XML requests 
over a socket.

Scribus won't make a very good server process though. It's strictly 
single threaded, slow to start up, the internal API isn't much fun to 
work with, and existing remote control/scripting facilities are limited.



So ... what are you actually trying to *do* by controlling Scribus from PHP?

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Craig Ringer