Jukka on the S60 Blogs is reporting that PHP and mySQL are going to be available for S60 devices in early 2008.
Jukka reports that Johan Wikman (father of the original Apache port for S60) writes:
I can now reveal that we at the CCNC conference in Las Vegas in January, 2008 will demonstrate and release what we call the PAMP stack.
PAMP stands for Personal Apache, MySQL, PHP, so yes, the full LAMP stack will be made available for S60 smartphones. In addition, there will be PHP extension modules that provide access to the core functionality of the phone. And on top of PAMP you can basically install any LAMP based content management system. For instance, Drupal can be installed off the shelf.
Yes, a fair amount of memory is needed and it's still pretty experimental stuff, but it runs quite nicely on E90.
At first sight this may seem like an example of porting just to prove it can be done. It does, however, have the potential to create a whole new way of looking at Web application. For example, I've recently been evaluating a number of GTD applications. Several of these use PHP and MySQL and it will be interesting to see if they work on PAMP.
As such PAMP could add yet another option for developers to create S60 applications and create a new paradigm for the "off-line" Web. Hopefully by January I'll have an S60 device with the memory to run this baby.
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