Re: Module development for PHP3

> As of today I started the process of porting the internal script language of > the webinterface to the DNews news-server software ( > http://dnews.kyber.dk/ ) > to a PHP3 module. > > This will enable users to build a PHP3 web interface to a news server. First > goal is to integrate DNews with PHP, since they have been kind enough to give > me their source :-), but as soon as that is running, I want to expand it to a > more genreic set of functions. I plan to keep the module fairly generic :-). > > I have two questions in this regard: > > 1) Do I _need_ access to the CVS tree for this? (This is my first PHP3 module, > so I'm basically in the dark ;-) > > 2) Is there any naming convention you'd prefer? I was thinking of news_<cmd>() > for the generic function (connect, read a post etc) and news_<server>_<cmd> > for server specific functions. Examples might be: > > Connect to news server: > refpointer news_dnews_connect(ip [,user [,passwd] ] ); > refpointer news_inn_connect(ip [,user [,passwd] ] ); > > Get ID of last post: > postid news_lastpost(refpointer, group); > > Read header block: > array news_headers(refpointer, postid); > > So connecting to a DNews newsserver (news.kyber.dk) as user "guru" with > password "secret" and reading the header of last posting into an array > "harray" would be like: > > ... > newsid = news_dnews_connect("news.kyber.dk", "guru", "secret"); > last = news_lastpost(newsid, "kyber.develop.test"); > harray = news_headers(newsid, last); > ... > > Is this acceptable? Questions like these should be directed at php-dev@lists.php.net. To answer your question. No, you don't really need CVS access for this. At least not initially. Once you have some working code and it seems like it would be a useful thing to add to the main PHP distribution, we will get you set up with a CVS account and you can maintain it. As for the naming convention, it seems ok to me. A question though. What does this stuff do that the imap module's NNTP mode doesn't do? -Rasmus -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net