No, curl support is compiled into PHP and is extremely stable so there's no command shell or POSIX stability issues to deal with -- just direct C interfacing.
Also, there is a way for PHP to talk to HTTP directly -- while I can post that method, it's probably not necessary. The curl libraries have been included in most PHP distros for quite some time and are simply superior to any other method of sending and receiving data over HTTP sockets. Without attempting to generalize too much, there aren't too many reasons that one shouldn't have curl support enabled on their PHP distribution. Brian -----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 9:35 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Java or PHP code to trigger solr? On Jun 28, 2006, at 5:26 PM, Brian Lucas wrote: > Ok, I uploaded the initial versions: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ > SolPHP Wow, so you shell to "curl". Interesting! Surely there is a PHP way to simply talk HTTP directly? (never having code a line of PHP ever) Erik
