Nov 20 2007
Rumors about PHP and MySQL coming to mobile
I found some rumors about a not so far release of PAMP for S60. What PAMP stands for? The answer is very simple: Personal Apache, MySQL, PHP. The release and demonstration of PAMP capabilities will be made in January 2008 at the CCNC conference in Las Vegas.
I also found PAMP was tested on Nokia E90 and worked well but some problems with memory consumption must be solved. The platform will support LAMP based applications and will provide access to the core functionality of the phone.
Nokia already supports Python as scripting language, but the PHP community is considerably larger and the probability to find some programmers to start experimenting the new technology is much higher.
Maybe this mobile web server will make the mobile software market much more dynamic, but we need to evaluate the exposure to higher security risks. Having the possibility to search my phone contacts list from a notebook, any notebook, by simply accessing some web page, I’ll take the risks.
