Question

I’m writing a service in C# on Windows which should be triggert by an PHP driven web frontend, which runs on Linux.

Both processes share the same SQL Server 2005 database.

There is no messaging middleware available atm.

The PHP process inserts an row in a SQL Server table. The Windows process should read this entry and process it.

I have no experience in PHP, so what would you suggest to notify the Windows process?

Answer 1

I see at least 2 ways to accomplish that task:

1. Host in process WCF service in windows service and call it from PHP.
2. Write events in the database from PHP and subscribe on them using SqlDependency.