Re: ext/overload API

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Timm Friebe wrote: > Hello, > Andrei, as I can see, you're the author of ext/overload. As suggested > earlier, I've added a second parameter to sybase_fetch_object() which > allows users to pass an object to be filled with the results from the > fetched row (e.g. $article= sybase_fetch_object($q, new Article()); or > $article= sybase_fetch_object($q, 'Article')). > > Well, if "Article" is an overloaded class, they'd probably expect that > their __set*-handlers are called when the object's properties are set. > Of course, object_and_properties_init() does not do this. But indeed, > it'd be quite nice if they would. > > Thus, one would need the C functions call_get_handler and > call_set_handler to be declared not static but PHPAPI (is this right?) > and an additional method to test if a zend_class_entry is overloaded. > > * http://sitten-polizei.de/php/overload.patch > would make it work. Maybe macros would be a better way? > > * http://sitten-polizei.de/php/sybase_ct.patch > shows a sample usage (btw, is there any documentation on TSRM?) > maybe _set_object_prop should be moved to ext/overload as a > utiltiy function? > > I came up with this since I use sybase resultsets within SOAP, clearly > needing to distinguish strings from datetime types, int, floats and so > on. My first idea was to introduce a function > sybase_bind_datatype(SYBASE_DATETIME, 'Date') > but why not make use of an already existing and powerful extension? Because this extension is going away in ZE2? -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ * We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel. *