Comments on: Running Quercus PHP on App Engine

By: Raivo

Raivo — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:53:34 +0000

@Danny: is the file in the war/WEB-INF folder? http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/java.html#readfile

Also, seems like there was a bug with file_get_contents which should be fixed in v4.0.4 so I hope you are using the latest version.
http://forum.caucho.com/showthread.php?t=3244

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:55:58 +0000

I was trying to deploy a php based application onto Google Appengine with the Quercus php engine.

the basics worked (phpinfo() etc.) but my application had some trouble with the file_get_contents call which wouldn’t get the file. the error looked something like this:

create_request.php:35: Warning: ./simplexml.txt cannot be read [file_get_contents]

I was trying to access a file in the file system local to the script (not an external url).

I’ve seen a couple of articles hinting at limitations with the php implementation (obviously db support is one thing) but nothing firm on support for file_get_contents or fopen.

Is there a limitation for local file access? Are there any configuration options that block file access (I’m aware of the allow_url_fopen = On but nothing specific to local files)?

thanks, Danny

By: PHP on Google App Engine

PHP on Google App Engine — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:56:05 +0000

This helped me when creating a package for easy PHP application building on Google. Thanks! http://php-apps.appspot.com/

By: Raivo

Raivo — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:05:51 +0000

Did you try uploading your app from the command line with the –enable_jar_splitting option?

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:05:24 +0000

Great explanation!

I got this to work on my local machine, but when I upload it to GAE, it says the resin jar is too big.

Any thoughts?