Flash & PHP

Hello everyone, I just added support for libswf (http://reality.sgi.com/grafica/flash/) in PHP, the files are in the latest CVS for PHP4. This message is just to serve as a technical note on some of the things in the files. 1. In the CVS tree there are two header files, php_swf.h and swf.h, php_swf.h is the standard PHP header file & swf.h is the header file for libswf support. The reason this is needed is because in some distributions of libswf, there is an error in the swf.h file, therefore we use a customized version of the swf.h file. 2. The functions interface directly with libswf, that means these files are just wrappers (like a considerable amount of the PHP modules). If you take a look at the libswf documentation it will apply equally for PHP's support of libswf, with three small incompatibilities (the first two will be rectified soon): a. swf_definepoly is not supported b. in swf_openfile you cannot specify STDOUT if you want to output the file directly. c. The sound functions are not supported, this is not likely to be changed since libaudiofile is required for such support. 3. This module has been tested on Redhat Linux 6.1 with the following mix of configure options: apache mysql pgsql snmp ldap gd xml pcre sessions swf (of course) 4. The configure line would go something like: ./configure --with-swf[=DIR] ...everything else Where DIR is the location of libswf.a. 5. For links to the libswf homepage and a sample flash file created along with the code for that flash file see http://www.designmultimedia.com/swfphp/. 6. On my TODO list for the module: a. Add swf_definepoly b. Add support for writing the file to stdout c. Build in error checking on the PHP side since libswf doesn't really do it for you. d. Prototypes 7. The root of most problems you will come across while using this module will be related to not properly installing libswf, so make sure you correctly install libswf! Thanks for your time, Sterling Hughes sterling@designmultimedia.com P.s.: Makefile.in and config.m4 were not created by me, they're simply an adaption of the config.m4 and Makefile.in in ext/mcrypt.