Re: [PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-23 Thread Geoff - Creative Living
Hi folks > > >As an alternative, I worked briefly on a native PHP Petri-net workflow > > >engine with a guy called Tony Marston before we parted ways. He has > > >written it up here: > > > > > >http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/workflow.html > I wrote to Tony a couple of months ago and he said

Re: [PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-22 Thread Geoff - Creative Living
Hi Mike > I'm not aware of any. I am kind of developing my own for my current > Materials System. Sounds as though, like me, you might just get away with a decision table parser rather than a fully-fledged corporate rules engine. though your application is a bit more complex than ours. It's su

Re: [PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-21 Thread Geoff - Creative Living
Mike > How about jBPM (http://www.jboss.org/products/jbpm)? I looked at it, > briefly, awhile back. May implement it in the next release of my > company software. Anyone have any experience with it? There's a wide range of Java solutions: http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/rule_engines/view

[PHP] Decision table/business rule parser?

2005-11-21 Thread Geoff - Creative Living
Hi Does anyone know of an open source or commercial php library for parsing decision tables? Or failing that, a more general business rules parser? I can't find anything on the usual php script sites. Unless I'm missing something, this seems to be a gap - in the Java world there is a wide choice