newb: Can I use PYRO

[Irmen de Jong]

johnny wrote:
> What I want to do is the following:
> 
> Web user uploads a word doc (web app written in php), and I need it to
> move the uploaded word
> doc, on to another machine and conver it to pdf.  Then update the
> database and allow immediate pdf download.  I am thinking of using ftp
> from machine 1 -> machine 2, then convert doc to pdf on machine 2,
> using process or thread.  What is the best way to go about doing this,
> process or threads or pyro?  Pdf is created by calling commands on the
> command line, through python script.

Even though you are using Python on the machine that converts things to PDF,
you're stuck with PHP on the web server. You cannot use Pyro with PHP.

--Irmen