Re: Reuse PHP functions in a third-party application

Richard, Thanks for the info. Under these circumstances I suppose that the CGI calling mode is the best suited. On the other hand this option might raise some performance penalty. I wonder if better performance could be achieved if I would use a socket based call interface to my module running inside the running PHP server. Regards, Robert Richard Lynch wrote:

On Tue, March 20, 2007 5:27 am, Robert Enyedi wrote:

I'm not very familiar with the internal architecture of the Zend PHP engine nor with the PHP module mechanism, but can you reuse compiled PHP modules in other applications? Is there a way of calling the functions of a compiled module from a third party C application?

Probably not... I suppose that Prioblender thingie or one of the compilers might be able to be hacked with a PHP CLI binary to kind of do that, but a base PHP install doesn't ever actually store the opcodes anywhere in a compiled form as you are imagining. Even the various Caches only store opcode, and not machine code/binaries, so you still need the Zend Engine to rip through and execute them somewhere somehow, I think. Of course, you could use PHP to provide REST, SOAP, WebDAV, etc