Re: how do you create a private property as an array in a class

Hi Johannes, Yes I just found out that I should extend instead of the approach I was thinking about. So I created this: typedef struct _foo_object { zend_object std; zval *array; int size; } foo_object; So the question is how do I correctly pass foo_object around so that I can manipulate *array ? Having a private variable would mean calling getThis() and handling it that way would be trivial. Are there any examples I could see? I'm using the slides from your presentation in 2009 to help me. thanks On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de>wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 11:23 -0700, Matthew Hernandez wrote: > > This is my first extension I'm working on. I'm trying to make a class > > available to the user space with 1 private property that is an array. > > The first question is: Why? - Why add the overhead of creating such an > array if it is private? In most cases it is better to extend the > zend_object in C (struct my_object { zend_object inner; type > some_data;}) to hold private data. If you want to show it in var_dump or > a debugger you could implement a debug_info hook. > > johannes > > >