Re: PEAR IMAGICK [WAS-> RANT: Why doesn't PHP have built-in support for dynamic]

In <3C5D821C.20203@tapinternet.com>, Michael Kimsal wrote: > Weston Houghton wrote: > >> Anybody interested in working on a PEAR module to interface PHP with >> something like ImageMagick directly? I would love to see it. Maybe if I >> am unemployed long enough soon I can work on it myself. Not that I >> really want that to happen... >> >> I think that might be the best solution for PHP's lack of image >> functionality though... >> >> Wes >> >> > Someone seems to have started this, although I'm not sure why he's not > going more object-based. > > > http://pear.php.net/manual/en/packages.imagick.php > > I would prefer something like > > $i = new Imagick(); > $i->read("file"); > > instead of > $i= imagick_create(); > imagick_read($i,"file"); it's open source. just do it more object orientated ... and i'm sure the author (me...) will be very happy to impelement it ;) honestly, OO-Interface was and still is planned, but i think more functionality is much more needed at the moment than an oo interface. it was my first extension, so i wanted to keep it simple for the beginning. but if someone else likes to implement it earlier, i'm the last, who has a problem with that (and don't expect 00 soon from me ...) chregu