Re: Hacker's guide?

Ian Young wrote:

Hi all, I'm applying for one of PHP's Google Summer of Code projects. The ideas page (http://www.php.net/ideas.php) includes this text: "If you are applying for a project in the PHP code itself (in C), you may find useful the PHP hackers guide, which also includes our C coding standards (TBD)." Does this hackers guide exist? I don't see it anywhere in the documentation. Is this just a reference to the readmes included in the source code? I did find the coding standards there, but I'm curious if there's more info somewhere else. Some handy resources:

Websites: * http://www.php.net/zend Official documentation. Not as well maintained as the userspace portions of the manual, but still very useful. * http://www.zend.com/php/internals Walthrough driven, focuses on extension development, but includes some "general internals" information in places. Books: * Extending and Embedding PHP (ISBN: 067232704X) Expanded version of http://www.zend.com/php/internals , Covers more of the sticky bits of navigating the PHPAPI.

* Advanced PHP Programming    (ISBN: 0672325616)
Primarily aimed at userspace development, but it has a large section on extension development and working with the APIs exposed by PHP.

Disclaimer: I wrote zend.com/php/internals Ext/Embed PHP, so take these recommendations with the grain of salt that they /are/ biased. And of course, there's always this mailing list and pecl-dev. -Sara