PHP in Google App Engine

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fruel
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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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I tried to install phpb 3.0.12 on Google App Engine using Fredsa's tutorial.

The setup worked fine (I copied an existing forum and did not install a new one) and the performance is really good but there are some big problems left:
  • preg_replace with the /e modifier (fixed in 3.1.0)
  • File uploads: Due to the design of Google App Engine the filesystem is not writable. To store files you need to use Google Cloud Storage which can be accessed from PHP with a stream wrapper (e.g. gs://storage-bucket/123.txt)
  • E-Mail - Google App Engine has its own Mail-API instead of PHP's mail() function. (using SMTP mail might work)
The biggest problem is file uploads - the other things I might be able to solve.
Is there any way to tell phpbb to upload files to gs://storage-bucket/ instead of files/ and images/avatars/upload?

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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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Those paths are stored in the config table I believe. I don't think we'd fix any of this in the 3.0 line though. How does 3.1 fare?
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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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Yes, GAE support in 3.1 would be very cool.

I tried changing the path for the uploaded files from "files/" to "gs://my-storage-bucket/" in the administrative area but it claims that this location is not writable.
(The path was correct - I tried creating a file in a sepereate php script using fopen/fwrite and it worked)

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Re: PHP in Google App Engine

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Maybe try changing it directly in the config table and see what happens. You'd have to purge the forum cache.
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