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PHP Demos

Overview

This directory contains PHP sample programs for various Ice components. These examples are provided to get you started on using a particular Ice feature or coding technique.

The following subdirectories contain sample programs:

• Chat contains a GUI client for the ZeroC Chat Demo.

• Glacier2 has an example that maintains a Glacier2 session.

• Ice has several examples that illustrate fundamental Ice concepts.

• IceDiscovery demonstrates the use of our multicast service discovery plug-in.

Compiling the Slice files

Each demo contains one or more Slice files. You need to compile these Slice files into PHP code before running the demo. You can either run slice2php yourself as shown in the demo's README.md file, or compile all the demo Slice files by executing the build.php script:

php build.php

build.php is a simple PHP script that runs slice2php on all the demo Slice files. The companion script clean.php removes all the files generated by slice2php.

If you install Ice in a non-standard location, set the ICE_HOME environment variable to this installation directory before executing build.php.

Running the Demos

Refer to the README.md file in each demo directory for usage instructions.