sapnwrfc a PHP extension for the NW RFC SDK

[Former Member]

Hello all -

I am looking for help with testing and improving a new PHP RFC extension, sapnwrfc.

This is designed to take advantage of the NetWeaver RFC SDK, and hopefully will help deal with unicode issues.

The code is available at http://www.piersharding.com/download/php/sapnwrfc/

And the primary problems are with:

• determining the build process for win32

• robustly testing the parameter calling interface.

In the source archive available above, there are sketchy build instructions in INSTAL, and in the unit_tests directory, are examples.

A starting point would be to get the build going and just run those tests.

Cheers,

Piers Harding.

[former_member1053980]

Hi Piers,

Thanks for all your hard work!!! I really appreciate it!!!

We're going to migrate our SAP system from 6.4 to ECC6 this year.

We just installed a test ECC6 system and I'm planning on testing your PHP module.

Just some questions....

Can the module be used in a production environment already, you think?

We don't use that many critical RFC calls on our PHP¨system, but only a few.

But ofcourse, if you say the module is really unstable at th moment, maybe it's better to not use it yet?

Are you going to further develop the module (in the near future), or have you stopped developing it?

Do you have some kind of roadmap on when you would like to have a stable version ready?

Anyway, we're going to test it for a few months. Maybe we can draw our own conclusions.

Many, many thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Hi Guy -

As with all software you need to test it for your particular situation to ensure it performs adequately, but yes, I woould use it in production.

It is only actively developed when people come to me with specific issues - which doesn't happen very often. I think the API is reasonably complete, and in line with the Perl/Python/Ruby versions.

Cheers.