Php greeter

php/.gitignore

@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ Chat/Chat.php
 Chat/PollingChat.php
 Glacier2/hello/Hello.php
 Ice/hello/Hello.php
+Ice/greeter/Greeter.php
 Ice/optional/Contact.php
 IceDiscovery/hello/Hello.php

php/Ice/greeter/Client.php

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+<?php
+// Copyright (c) ZeroC, Inc.
+
+require_once 'Ice.php';
+require_once 'Greeter.php';
+
+// Create an Ice communicator to initialize the Ice runtime. This communicator is destroyed automatically at the end of
+// the script.
+$communicator = Ice\initialize();
+
+// GreeterPrxHelper is a class generated by the Slice compiler. We create a Greeter proxy from a communicator and a
+// "stringified proxy" with the address of the target object.
+// If you run the server on a different computer, replace localhost in the string below with the server's hostname
+// or IP address.
+$greeter = VisitorCenter\GreeterPrxHelper::createProxy($communicator, 'greeter:tcp -h localhost -p 4061');
+
+// Send a request to the remote object and get the response.
+$greeting = $greeter->greet(get_current_user());
+
+echo "$greeting\n";
+?>

php/Ice/greeter/Greeter.ice

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+// Copyright (c) ZeroC, Inc.
+
+#pragma once
+
+module VisitorCenter
+{
+    /// Represents a simple greeter.
+    interface Greeter
+    {
+        /// Creates a personalized greeting.
+        /// @param name The name of the person to greet.
+        /// @return The greeting.
+        string greet(string name);
+    }
+}

php/Ice/greeter/README.md

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+# Greeter
+
+The Greeter demo illustrates how to write a client application with Ice for PHP.
+
+Ice for PHP supports only client-side applications. As a result, you first need to start a Greeter server implemented
+in a language with server-side support, such as Python, Java, or C#.
+
+Then, in a separate window:
+
+- Compile Greeter.ice with the Slice to PHP compiler into Greeter.php
+
+```shell
+slice2php Greeter.ice
+```
+
+- Run the client application
+
+```shell
+php Client.php
+```