RE: [PHP-DEV] Extension help

> Hi! > > >even though i did convert_to_string_ex(tmpString) ? > You should still do that, but the only thing that really does is set the zval type to IS_STRING, and the value union is set accordingly (instead of e.g. a long in value.lval, you get the value as a string in value.str.val (and the length of the string in value.str.len, excl. terminating 0). So what you have after the conversion is still a zval, but you can now safely use the value.str.val (which is of type char *, as you would expect). Cheerio, Marc.