PHP in Google App Engine

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Dog Cow
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PHP in Google App Engine

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Now that Google App Engine has a sandbox for PHP, maybe we should take a look at writing a storage engine for phpBB to use Google's datastore. They already have a MySQL-compatible database, but there is also the Google Cloud Storage system.

Some links for everyone:
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/
https://developers.google.com/appengine ... /wordpress

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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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phpBB should be able to run fine on Google Cloud SQL (https://developers.google.com/appengine ... pers-guide), from what I see it is just a MySQL DB hosted on google. But yes phpbb definitely needs to be tested on appspot.

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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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It should work since it's just a MySQL server, but I'm not sure whether using it or not would be a good idea as it could significantly increase the page load times due to the latency increase with using a remote database server. Now it might be useful for redundancy or some tables could be moved to a remote database server and not cause significant increases in page load times, but phpBB doesn't support that functionality natively.

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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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Whats the point? It's not like it's a widely used System - It's only for Google's customers.
Most people don't host PHP on App Engine.
I think this should be a mod.

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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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naim wrote:Whats the point? It's not like it's a widely used System - It's only for Google's customers.
Most people don't host PHP on App Engine.
I think this should be a mod.
I think you can get a free account on Google if your app doesn't use up too many system resources.

Most people don't host PHP on App Engine because you couldn't do it until just a few weeks ago. It used to be only Java and Python.

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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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But Google is only one service;
Why waste on resources when most people don't use Google Apps?

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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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FWIW, someone has posted a blog entry at http://fredsa.allen-sauer.com/2013/07/s ... oogle.html on the steps required; I'll be trying it myself in a while.

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For the record: Google/fredsa has contributed a patch. See https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb3/pull/1479

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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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I followed Fredsa's steps and installed phpbb on appengine. It works now but not healthy. More patches are needed. I hope phpbb will be supported soon because there is not much forum supported on appengine.
preg_replace with the /e modifier cause problem in bbcode.php. I found a patch but it seems to be empty :(
http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9667

edit: I found the patch but there is no change in the affected line unfortunately.

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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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What are the unhealthy symptoms? Is it usable?

I just came across this while looking for free ways to host a low usage phpbb forum. Very interesting!

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