Supported Protocol


 PHP also has support for talking to other services using protocols such as the following:


  • LDAP - lightweight directory access protocol
  • iMAP - cyrus internet message access protocol
  • SMTP - simple mail transfer protocol
  • NNTP - network news transfer protocol
  • POP3 - post office protocol
  • COM - (on Windows only) support function for MS Windows

  

You can also open raw network sockets and interact using any other protocol.   PHP has support for the WDDX complex data exchange between virtually all Web programming languages.   Talking about interconnection, PHP has support for instantiation of Java objects and using them transparently as PHP objects.   


You can also use CORBA extension to access remote objects.