till wrote:
Not to start a flame war, but I am not sure if PHP is designed to run as a server. I know that people do it - the flickr people posted some interesting stuff about this (memory leaks).
I don't believe he was meaning port it as a PHP server, but rather mimic its functionality in PHP. Even if it was run as a server and written in PHP the same problem would be there - namely, that it requires admin access to run an additional process rather than being a PHP page/program.
I don't see what is wrong to "integrate" (plugin api) this with RC even if it's not written in PHP.
There is nothing wrong with having it, it's just not ideal. Many potential RC users would be running it in hosted space or on servers that they do not control. For them, a separate server process may be out of the question.
Jim