PHP <-> CORBA

Okay, I had been hacking on getting a DII-base CORBA interface for PHP, but am really running into problems with my understaning of the way php4 is working. I have looked over the examples (java and COM) and just do not get what is going on with all of the zend_hash* and family of macros. I have included the code to the corba_call_function_handler function (for some reason it would not paste from emacs into netscape :( as an attachment. This is my current situation: a) am I storing and retrieving the object correctly? assuming obj refers to a valid corba object, what sequence of ALLOC_ZVAL, pval_copy_constructor, zend_hash_index_update, etc. etc. etc. do I need to return the object back to PHP. Even a pointer to documentation would help. I have been unable to turn up anything so far, and looking at COM.c and java.c and going through the zend source code has gotten me nowhere (I guess I am kind of slow). b) Assuming there is an Interface Repository with which to grab the object interface, I think I am okay. As a fallback, I would like to be able to read an IDL file to contruct the dynamic invocation. Assuming a valid corba object, I need to pass back to PHP the interface's name associated with the object, so that I can properly associate the method name (which I can grab from the invocation) with the right interface. I don't need the name of the object, but the name of the generic interface it represents. Any help on these issues would be appreciated. Cheers, tim