When will the extension and embedding APIs ever be cleaned or documented?

From: Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:22:05 +0000
Subject: When will the extension and embedding APIs ever be cleaned or documented?
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Hey. Just a while ago, i started writing a C++ library, that I would like to utilize in PHP. Since the original aproach was made in C++, I would like to keep the OOP syntax in PHP. Already, months ago, I had tried to find ways to write useful PHP modules. But the major problem was always: How. I easily found documentation about adding functions…and how to expose a void pointer in the form of a „Resource“. But that was all that was ever properly documented. The OO module api was never really documented, and yet, is still hard to figure out. I was sent a slideshow of the api…but is a set of slides a really well made documentation? I think not. Many of you internals probably know the APIs needed to do these things: - Create a class with public/private/protected methods - thus making a class final. - Being able to store a pointer to forgein objects into the class, to re-use it. I have been learning to use the v8 API a lot and it has a very clean syntax. A third-party scripting language brought it even so far, that it could almost map native types to script types - but that was pure C++ - both of them. My simple question is hereby: - When will the module API ever be properly documented? Now, at some point, I want to embed PHP into my project. Like, I have the idea for a project, but I want to utilize a scripting language for it. None of the languages supports the syntax that I am used from PHP. And furthermore, neither v8 or PHP have an easy embedding way. V8 needs to utilize GYP, and PHP autotools. Both not very optimal, but eh. I simply want to know how I can take advantage of the embed-SAPI for my application - and how I can possibly integrate my project into PHP’s build process. Must I maintain configure.ac+makefile.am? Or is there anothe way to directly implement my code into the PHP build process? And my question hereby is: - When will the embed-SAPI be documented in a way, that it can be used? I havent found any useful docs for embedding PHP… Hope you understand what I am trying to ask ^^; Kind regards, Ingwie.

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