Re: contributing extensions?

At 08:10 28-08-01, George Schlossnagle wrote:

Ok, I have a php interface to the spread group communication toolkit client api. Hard to say how wide it's audience would be, but it's very useful for creating distributed applications (it was written to facilitate some distributed logging and distributed filesystem caching needs). Code available from http://www.lethargy.org/~george/php_spread/php_spread-0.1.tar.gz

If you think it would have a significant audience (i.e., more than you :) then we can add it in.

Dan Cowgill and I have a tracing/profiling/debugging extension which we would be quite interested in having included in php. Code available from http://apc.communityconnect.com/sources/apd-cvs.tar.gz Also, there is our APC caching project, which has become pretty mature now . It has a relatively large following and I think it would benefit php to have a free bundled compiler cache with it (not to mention benefit from the much larger developer base). Code available from http://apc.communityconnect.com/source/apc.tar.gz.

Due to the mutual exclusive nature of zend_extension's (extensions that modify the engine's behavior), we don't store these inside the PHP source tree. As it came up in the past, we can (and probably should) put up a directory of such extensions on php.net. All we need is someone to volunteer to do that. Zeev