I was given at work an assignment to convert all the PHP in a certain PHP and Flash 8 application to Perl. So I started doing it using CGI::Application and a bootload of Perl modules I was familiar with or heard of. (a lot of them in core).
I've been trying to maintain as much compatibility with the PHP application as I can. (Due to the fact I'm not sure I can modify the Flash application effectively.) Next, I'll need to work on Windows and Linux simultaneously because Flash 8 only runs on Windows (*grunt*), and I'd rather run Perl , PHP and Apache on Linux.
For this end, I can either use a VNC viewer on any Windows XP machine, or remote desktop to a Windows machine. Only problem is that Windows XP Home does not support Remote Desktop, and Windows XP Professional allows only one user at a time to work on the machine (remotely or locally). So I'm a bit limited. (Did I already mention that I hate Microsoft and am beginning to hate Adobe for not releasing Flash 8 for Linux?)
Right now, I got stuck a little on trying to find a Perl equivalent for some of the PHP imageiflter()'s. I'm using the GD module, but could not find anything there. So I'm planning to roll my own routines using XS, and hope that my work will allow me to submit them to CPAN as open source. (I don't see why not, but I'll ask anyway.)
In order to make sure I'm starting with a working app, and gradually testing the Perl parts, I'm going to use some Apache games to pass stuff to the PHP scripts or the Perl app. Fun, fun, fun.
PHP, Perl, Apache, GD, XS, Flash 8, Windows, Linux, VNC, Rdesktop - it sure may seem like an easy task, but isn't. In any case, cheers!
Re:Tried Imager?
Shlomi Fish on 2006-07-22T10:55:41
I'm already using the GD module, which is an interface to libgd, which is also what the PHP code is using. I'm planning on implementing the missing functions in the GD module, which isn't a lot.
