Re: Creating my own External Module for PHP

Hey! That worked! Thanks Rasmus! Grtz, Leon Mergen "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> schreef in bericht news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0212240931180.22834-100000@www.lerdorf.com... > Just run phpize in your directory and then do a ./configure && make > If your config.m4 was correct you should now have a modules/foo.so in your > dir. > > -Rasmus > > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Leon Mergen wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have a little question to which I hope to find an anwser in here. > > Currently, I have a big script which receives approx 1.5 million hits every > > day. Since this script does some common calculations that underlying scripts > > use, I want to rewrite this into C and initially make it an external module > > for beta testing and then eventually compile it directly into PHP. > > > > Now, I got this really good book, Web Application Development with PHP by > > Ratschiller and Gerken. It has a complete chapter devoted to "hacking the > > core of PHP" which shows how to create extensions. > > > > Now, they describe 2 common ways of hacking the core... making a shared > > object (which is what I want at this point) , or compiling the extension > > right into the core. They decribe how to make your extension with > > ~/ext/ext_skel , but they don't describe which steps to take when you only > > want to make a shared object... the only thing they say is "at this point, > > you should have a new PHP binary or a .so file" ... but they never gave any > > indication how to chose... they just asume you want a new php binary or sth. > > > > Now, can anyone provide me with a few brief description (a few steps) how to > > make your own dynamically loadable module in PHP? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards, > > > > Leon Mergen > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >