Re: How do I access a hash from an extention/module?

Hi Markus, I think I know those pages by heart :) Doesn't mean they all make sense to me for now. I'm sure that when I get some experience I will find that they make a lot of sense, and that each word should give me a clue, but this is a high level overview of the API, what we need is a real documentation, for each callable function and macro, what are the parameters, what the macro or function does, what it returns, make examples etc.. Zend/zend_hash.c, Zend/zend_API.h and ext/array.c are my bibles for now, but as I said before, although it works, i'm not sure why it works :) The few examples available are about creating basic things, like creating a long, or a string. When you start working on an extension, this is definitely not sufficient. I'll definitely help on the documentation when I get the light, but i'm way out of the league for now. Fab ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Fischer" <mfischer@guru.josefine.at> To: "fabwash" <fabwash@hotmail.com> Cc: "Eric Veldhuyzen" <eric@terra.telemediair.nl>; <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] How do I access a hash from an extention/module? > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:36:29AM -0400, fabwash wrote : > > > It would be nice it there was some REAL documentation about the API... > > > > > Amen to that!!!.. I spent exactely 5 1/2 hours yesterday trying to create a > > resource that is a structure which contains a set of pointers to an array of > > objects (yeah it's complicated but it's great when it works !), then later > > retrieve the array, walk throught it, get the objects back from the hash, > > and do something with them. > > > > Works fine for now (although i'm sure i have major memory leaks for now > > because i'm not sure how to deallocate and when to do it, when to add > > references and remove references), but some documentation would have reduced > > my research, trial and error, multiple compilations, tests, other source > > reading, debugging time, etc.. > > > > I get great help from people here on specific issues, but i'd rather read > > some documentation before asking stupid questions. > > Actually, there is: http://www.php.net/manual/en/zend.php > > Not up-to-date, but still worth a read. And, it's the same > for Zend docs as it is for PHP docs: volunteers are welcome. > > I've seen quite a few people in the last months writing > extenions and therefore they "know" how it is for a > newcommer. Yet no one asked if he can help out with the > documentation. > > - Markus > > -- > GnuPG Key: http://guru.josefine.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc >