Re: Adding Midgard support to PHP

I looked briefly at this before, and one problem is that the Midgard stuff is under the GPL. With PHP4, it will be easier to distribute third-party extensions to PHP. I would rather see us moving stuff out of the main distrubtion rather than adding to it at this point. Extending the language is a different matter, of course. There's no built-in way to do that easily. Jim Jukka Zitting wrote: > Perhaps some of you have already noticed the Midgard project that > released the first version of the Midgard Application Server system in > early May. Midgard uses PHP as a scripting language and page generation > engine. The first versions of Midgard used a heavily modified version of > PHP but nowadays the biggest changes have been separated to another > Apache module called mod_midgard. In fact the current differences > between normal PHP and the Midgardized PHP are so small, that I'm > wondering whether you would be interested in incorporating them to the > official PHP releases. > > Most of the code is located in the files php3_midgard.h and midgard.c > under the functions subdirectory. The files contain a PHP module called > "Midgard" that defines quite a number of functions for accessing the > Midgard database. > > Midgard also brings some changes to the PHP language scanner and parser. > These changes activate the Midgard template codes <[xxx]> and <(xxx)>, > and the variable expansion code &(xxx);. These codes are intercepted > from HTML so no changes to the actual PHP syntax have been made. I've > also tried to make the template codes activate themselves only when > parsing Midgard pages, but there might still be some points I missed. > > There is a patch against the cvs version 3.0.11 of PHP available at: > > http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1109.html > > Please take a look at it. Comments are welcome.