Re: Streams filter API

At 10:47 PM 8/20/2002 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote:

Filters are created using: php_stream_filter_create(char *filtername, char *filterparams,

    int filterparamslen, int persistent TSRMLS_DC);

filtername corresponds to the name used to register the factory; if no exact match is found, it looks for a factory matching "<group>.*", and then passes the filtername to it's factory method. Filterparams is a binary safe string parameter which can carry some kind of options to a filter implementation. For example, it might specifit the compression level for a zlib filter, or it might control the number of bits used in a cypher, or some kind of key for cypto filters. The filter API doesn't touch this parameter; it's interpreted only by the factory object/method.

Hey, I think it's probably best to make filterparams a void * because then you can pass whatever you want (a structure with all the params and so on). Of course you can do it with your current prototype too but this is how it's usually done. I haven't looked into the API itself so if it doesn't make much sense ignore me :) Andi