Re: Newbie writing a PHP extension

On Sunday 15 July 2001 16:38, Chris Boot wrote: > Hi, > > > I currently have a .zip with the Zend docs at my site, you can get it > > from there: > > > > http://docs.2good.nu/tmp/zend.zip > > I'd love to get them, but the URL required a user name & password. > Maybe you should move the file somewhere else? Sorry, the host should be download.2good.nu. > > For learning automake/autoconf I suggest you download this too from my > > site: > > > > http://docs.2good.nu/tmp/autobook-1.0.tar.gz > > Same as above, password. Wrong host as above... > > Currently I am writing an extension called Universe. This extension is > > a PHP interface to MICO (a C++ CORBA ORB). It will replace my earlier > > Satellite extension which uses ORBit (a C ORB). > > Sounds interesting. I haven't taken the time to learn CORBA, and I > don't even know what it's used for. Maybe you could clear me up? CORBA cannot be explained easily, but anyway it's a distributed object model... visit www.corba.org for info... > Supposedly id3lib is thread-safe. I haven't tested this though. All > I'm doing is calling id3lib and doing a few basic conversions. One > things that worries me is the resources. Does the Zend engine do its > own locking when you add things to resources? Thinking of it, you probably don't have to worry about thread safety unless you share data between different requests. Regards, -\- David Eriksson -/- "An expert in a particular computer language is really an expert in the work-arounds necessary to use this language to perform useful work." - Richard B. Johnson