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Joseph Crawford

20 years ago

Hello Everyone,

I have some knowledge of C and would like to learn more, i have a great book
by Deitel & Deitel and have gone through it.  What i would like to know is
where i can get docs on creating PHP extensions so that i could use them
with my PHP on windows and nix.

Any direction is appreciated.

--
Joseph Crawford Jr.
Zend Certified Engineer
Codebowl Solutions, Inc.
1-802-671-2021
codebowl@gmail.com

Sara Golemon

20 years ago

> I have some knowledge of C and would like to
> learn more, i have a great book by Deitel & Deitel
> and have gone through it.  What i would like to know is
> where i can get docs on creating PHP extensions so
> that i could use them with my PHP on windows and nix.
>

http://www.zend.com/php/internals/  should be enough to get you started.

George Schlossnagle's "Advanced PHP Programming" has a chapter or two in the
back on extension development, and I should have "Extending and Embedding
PHP" out early next year.

Beyond that, just ask questions (preferrably on the pecl-dev@lists.php.net
list -- internals@ is supposed to be focused on the core) and hopefully
someone will be able to offer insight.

-Sara

Bob Silva

20 years ago

I started out by copying ext/skel and went from there. Using some real
simple extensions as examples helps as well, SPL was really helpful since my
extension is all object based, and I didn't need to interface with an
external library, in that case, mysqli is a real clean example.

Read Sara's articles on zend.com to understand the zval structure and
parameter parsing api, once you have these down the rest flows pretty well
even without a background in C.

Hope this helps,

Bob Silva

Andi Gutmans

20 years ago

You can also check out my book: http://tinyurl.com/7aect It's a free download.
It has one chapter of the basics for PHP extension writing. It might
not answer all your questions but definitely gives a solid foundation
for understanding how things work.

Andi

At 03:36 PM 12/8/2005, Joseph Crawford wrote:

Joseph Crawford

20 years ago

lol so now i find out it's a free download i bought that book not long ago i
like print better anyway ;)

--
Joseph Crawford Jr.
Zend Certified Engineer
Codebowl Solutions, Inc.
1-802-671-2021
codebowl@gmail.com

Jani Taskinen

20 years ago

1 (one) email about this would have been enough. No more spam please! :)

--Jani

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Andi Gutmans wrote:

Joseph Crawford

20 years ago

jani,

what are you talking about?

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Joseph Crawford Jr.
Zend Certified Engineer
Codebowl Solutions, Inc.
1-802-671-2021
codebowl@gmail.com