Re: Extending PHP
| From: | Matt McClanahan | Date: | Fri, 05 Jan 2001 00:23:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Extending PHP | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Geoff Coffey wrote:
> I have a need to add some functionality to PHP and I'm looking for
> approaches. I am aware of these possibilities:
>
> Implement PHP callable functions in c (there is some documentation for this
> with PHP 3 in the manual)
> 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?
You can distribute PHP extensions which don't require PHP itself to be
recompiled. Read README.SELF-CONTAINED-EXTENSIONS for more information.
Matt