Re: Extending PHP

> Implement PHP callable functions in c (there is some documentation for this > with PHP 3 in the manual) Yes. Requires recompiling PHP itself, and knowledge of C and figuring out a few C macros to wrap PHP-isms around your code. > Implement functions/classes in PHP and include the script file Easily extendible by the masses of PHP users. > Implement PHP callable functions in Java (I don't think you really need > documentation for this...) Not sure PHP/Java interface is at production quality yet... > Are there any other possibilities? Is there any way to dynamically extend > PHP (rather than forcing a rebuild to get the new functions included...)? Is > there any documentation for extending PHP 4? Yes, yes, and yes. :-) PEAR -- PHP Extensible something or other. It's got its own mailing list. You can find some basic "HowTo" samples in Rasmus' talks at computer geek conferences, often posted online at http://conf.php.net You still need to grok C and the macros, but it's easier to alter without recompiling all of PHP. > What about pros and cons to different methods? I think the simplest and most > friendly solution is writing classes in PHP, but I may run in to annoying > limitations. Otherwise, I would most like to implement a PHP class in c, but > I can't find documentation on this. Is it as simple as naming your functions > <classname>::<method name> and referencing a local variable 'this' are is > there more to it? Huh? PHP classes are implemented in C. If you want to write a whole new class system... Wow. I doubt that you can just use PHP classes in C with some stuff like that... But I dunno. Join the PEAR mailing list. > Also, does any one know if there are plans to add destructor support to PHP > classes? It's a pretty glaring omission in my opinion... It's on the list, but it's probably something pretty tricky or it would already have been done -- Keep in mind that PHP's memory management is *NOTHING* like C's or C++'s... Perhaps you could dive into the PHP code and try to do it :-)