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This is possible, even now. The web service already exposes most of the TV database functions from MP. However, there is an inevitable performance hit when first MP has to get the data from the database, then serialise it for the web service, then PHP has to interpret the XML, and finally it has to build the pages.

Of course, you could argue that you could use COM to interface with PHP, eliminating the web service middleman, but then there needs to be a common interface between the two technologies, which will most likely be XML, so again, you have performance hits when PHP has to intrepret the XML data.

Ultimately, the best case scenario would be to have the web interface in ASP.NET, however, due to legacy reasons, it is not and will most likely not be. The primary reason is that more people who are will to help seem to know PHP, and it also gives those who don't know a .NET language the chance to help out with the project.

Sam

<blockquote data-quote="samuel337" data-source="post: 17808" data-attributes="member: 10347">This is possible, even now. The web service already exposes most of the TV database functions from MP. However, there is an inevitable performance hit when first MP has to get the data from the database, then serialise it for the web service, then PHP has to interpret the XML, and finally it has to build the pages.Of course, you could argue that you could use COM to interface with PHP, eliminating the web service middleman, but then there needs to be a common interface between the two technologies, which will most likely be XML, so again, you have performance hits when PHP has to intrepret the XML data.Ultimately, the best case scenario would be to have the web interface in ASP.NET, however, due to legacy reasons, it is not and will most likely not be. The primary reason is that more people who are will to help seem to know PHP, and it also gives those who don't know a .NET language the chance to help out with the project.Sam</blockquote>

[QUOTE="samuel337, post: 17808, member: 10347"] This is possible, even now. The web service already exposes most of the TV database functions from MP. However, there is an inevitable performance hit when first MP has to get the data from the database, then serialise it for the web service, then PHP has to interpret the XML, and finally it has to build the pages. Of course, you could argue that you could use COM to interface with PHP, eliminating the web service middleman, but then there needs to be a common interface between the two technologies, which will most likely be XML, so again, you have performance hits when PHP has to intrepret the XML data. Ultimately, the best case scenario would be to have the web interface in ASP.NET, however, due to legacy reasons, it is not and will most likely not be. The primary reason is that more people who are will to help seem to know PHP, and it also gives those who don't know a .NET language the chance to help out with the project. Sam [/QUOTE]