Re: Tying PHP3 to Linux-PAM: opaque objects

(Note: php3-dev isn't the list you were looking for -- php-dev@lists.php.net is the primary development list.) I would imagine that you would want to implement the PAM "handles" the way that connection ids are handled by the various database interfaces. (So looking at functions/mysql.c would be a good start, particularly the php3_mysql_connect() and php3_mysql_query() functions.) Jim On Jun 15, Stephen Langasek wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm currently trying to create a module for PHP3 which will add support for > PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), and have run into a bit of a > problem. The PAM API requires applications to pass an opaque, > session-specific object to its functions, and I can't figure out how to do > this from PHP3. (I have no experience coding in PHP3; I'm writing this for > the benefit of our web developers at work.) Nothing I've seen in the PHP3 > documentation suggests that there's a generic pointer data type. The > IS_OBJECT() mentioned in the manual seemed promising, but the documentation > is scarce and my forays into the PHP3 source code have left me confused, no > closer to an answer. > > A quick search through the archive of this list shows that lack of PAM > support is considered an open bug in PHP3, but there's no sign that anyone > has done any work on it. Perhaps anyone who's tried ran into the same > problem that I did? :) > > Can anyone shed some light on this? > > TIA, > -Steve Langasek > postmodern programmer > >