Hprose is a High Performance Remote Object Service Engine.

It is a modern, lightweight, cross-language, cross-platform, object-oriented, high performance, remote dynamic communication middleware. It is not only easy to use, but powerful. You just need a little time to learn, then you can use it to easily construct cross language cross platform distributed application system.

Hprose supports many programming languages, for example:

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• ActionScript
• ASP
• C++
• Dart
• Delphi/Free Pascal
• dotNET(C#, Visual Basic...)
• Golang
• Java
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• Objective-C
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby
• ...

Through Hprose, You can conveniently and efficiently intercommunicate between those programming languages.

This project is the implementation of Hprose extension for PHP.

There are many ways to build the package. Below you can find details for most useful ways of package building:

1. Create ext/hprose folder in the php-source-folder. Copy all files from the package into created folder.

2. Run

   ./buildconf
   

   to rebuild PHP's configure script.

3. Compile php with option:

   --enable-hprose to build bundled into PHP module

   --enable-hprose=shared to build dinamycally loadable module

1. Unpack contents of the package.

2. Run

   phpize
   

   script, which will prepare environment for building hprose package.

3. Run

   ./configure --enable-hprose=shared
   

   to generate makefile.

4. Run

   make
   

   to build hprose extension library. It will be placed into ./modules folder.

5. Run

   make install
   

   to install hprose extension library into PHP

1. Run:

    pecl install hprose
   

   That's all.

This extension is a part of Hprose for PHP, It only implements hprose serialize, unserialize and RPC protocol abstraction layer. The real http client and server implementation are written in PHP. If you want to know how to use it, look at here:

http://github.com/hprose/hprose-php