Re: skeleton module?

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Jouni Ahto wrote: > In the beginning, I just thought about rewriting magick (ImageMagick) > module from PHP3. But after starting to write it from scratch, a thought > came... there's a lot of necessary things to write when starting a new > module, the minimal code needed seems to be always the same, so why in the > hell not write a script to do it? > > So, I took ext_skel as a starting point, wrote some skeleton code (not > exactly finished or perfect yet), and now I've got a script called > create_module. When you call it like 'create_module foobar', it creates > directory ext/foobar and files Makefile.in, config.m4, foobar.c, > php_foobar.h and foobar.php in it. > > After just tweaking config.m4 and doing ./buildconf; ./configure > --[with|enable]-foobar, it's ready to be compiled in PHP4 and contains > even one example function, foobar_test() (that's why there's that > foobar.php file, to check that the tests in config.m4 went through and the > module was compiled in). > > Thoughts? To myself, seems a really good idea (wouldn't have bothered > otherwise). Should I just add and commit it, so you can see what I'm > trying to do. Sounds neat. Can you integrate it into ext_skel? - Sascha