Setup documentation that you may want to check out prior to this article: PHP Setup, Ice

With IcePHP establishing the connection to the interface differs between the Ice versions 3.3 and prior and 3.4 and later.

Ice <= 3.3

There’s an example script using the ‘‘‘Ice 3.3’’’ approach (defining the ice.slice directive in the PHP settings) included in the source; have a look at /mumble/blob/1.2.4/scripts/icedemo.php.

The establishing, minimum code, is:

Ice_loadProfile();
// initialize ice connection
global $ICE;
$base = $ICE->stringToProxy('Meta:tcp -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6502');
$meta = $base->ice_checkedCast("::Murmur::Meta");

Ice >= 3.4

First, you will have to generate PHP code from the slice definitions .ice file. With Ice >= 3.4 installed, use the slice2php executable to generate it.

For your PHP code, you’ll have to have the Ice.php and other libs (scripts provided by zeroc) in your PHPs include path to include them.

require_once 'Ice.php';
require_once 'Murmur.php';
$ICE = Ice_initialize();
$meta = Murmur_MetaPrxHelper::checkedCast($ICE->stringToProxy('Meta:tcp -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6502'));

Where Murmur.php is the generated file.