"Portlets are web components--like servlets--specifically designed to be aggregated in the context of a composite page. Usually, many portlets are invoked to in the single request of a portal page. Each portlet produces a fragment of markup that is combined with the markup of other portlets, all within the portal page markup." (from the Portlet Specification, JSR 168)

The PHP WSRP Customer class is a full implementation of the WSRP customer written in PHP. The class is tested with .NET and Oracle portal servers, so most portal implementation should work with this class.

The PHP wsrp customer is still under development. You can download the latest version at http://code.google.com/p/phpwsrp/, or you can contact me to get access to the subversion repository if you want to join this Open Source project.

Introduction

"Portlets are web components--like servlets--specifically designed to be aggregated in the context of a composite page. Usually, many portlets are invoked to in the single request of a portal page. Each portlet produces a fragment of markup that is combined with the markup of other portlets, all within the portal page markup." (from the Portlet Specification, JSR 168)

If you take a closer look at the browser content, you will see that this page is made up of different "windows." There is one window for the weather update, another window for news, a third for a stock price update, and so on. Each of these windows represents a portlet. If you take closer look, you will find that each of these windows has a title bar and a few buttons, including minimize and maximize buttons.

"Portlets are web components--like servlets--specifically designed to be aggregated in the context of a composite page. Usually, many portlets are invoked to in the single request of a portal page. Each portlet produces a fragment of markup that is combined with the markup of other portlets, all within the portal page markup." (from the Portlet Specification, JSR 168)

The PHP WSRP Customer class is a full implementation of the WSRP customer written in PHP. The class is tested with .NET and Oracle portal servers, so most portal implementation should work with this class.

The PHP wsrp customer is still under development. You can download the latest version at http://code.google.com/p/phpwsrp/, or you can contact me to get access to the subversion repository if you want to join this Open Source project.