Re: Additions to PHP

At 3:54 PM +0100 12/31/03, Derick Rethans wrote:

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Eric Gorr wrote:

If I wanted to suggest, and even offer to write, some new functions to be included in a standard PHP distribution, who should I speak to?

This is the correct place. What do you have in mind?

On my site, I had implemented a couple of election resolution methods. Now, these methods can be computationally expensive and while I can implement them in PHP, it would be wonderful if I could call a compiled function to return a result. While my old web host allowed compiled CGI code, my new one does not. So, I wanted to look into a 'back-door', but trusted, way to get a compiled version of this stuff. The code is really quite simple and all I really need know is if this idea would be worth pursuing from the perspective of having it eventually be included in a standard distribution. I do not know what criteria is used in such matters. I am quite interested in this topic and believe it would be of great value for every website where a vote needed to be taken on some topic with multiple alternatives. Assuming people here felt it would be worth pursuing as an extension to PHP, it would be a trivial matter to implement more then a couple of these methods, increasing the overall value of the work. I will also take Marcus' suggestion and look into PECL. If anyone happens to be interested in looking into the general topic further, feel free to ask me. As a side note (and if you are interested), the Debian project (http://www.debian.org), uses one of these methods for their elections (http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0002). -- == Eric Gorr ========= http://www.ericgorr.net ========= ICQ:9293199 === "Therefore the considerations of the intelligent always include both benefit and harm." - Sun Tzu == Insults, like violence, are the last refuge of the incompetent... ===