Perl extension for PHP

Hi there, Summary ======= I've written a PHP Extension to embed a perl interpreter to PHP and would like to publish it via pear/pecl. Requirements ============ PHP 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.3, 4.3.1 (tested versions) Perl 5.8.0 (due to API changes no older versions supported) Tested using a Linux box What can it do ============== At the moment this is a rather simple extension, if enough people are interested in it I can spend more time on it. At the moment you can create an perl interpreter, let the interpreter eval some perl code, execute a perl sub and manipulate (read/write) scalar perl variables using a few PHP-Extension functions. the prototypes of thes functions look like void perl_init(void) Inits the perl interpreter bool perl_eval(string source) Parses and executes some perl code given as paramter mixed perl_call(string name, [array param]) Calls a perl sub called name with the paramters param Returns the perl return value if perl returns a scalar variable, only scalar paramters in param alloud mixed perl_get_var(string name) Returns the value of the (scalar) parl variable name. name needs to be in global context of the perl-script bool perl_set_var(string name, mixed value) Sets the perl variable name with the value value Where required this extension does a little typecasting between perl and PHP values. (PHP bool -> perl int, scalar variables hold their type, other types arn't supported, yet) Usage ===== see included example perl.php Problems ======== - C-written perl modules don't work (see perlembed(1) about compiling embeded perl interpreters using perl modules - Accessing non-existing variables or eval'ing bad perl-code might result in segfaults - print-calls in perl scripts while using an PHP-SPI different from CLI or CGI are not send to the zend output stream but somewhere Installation: ============= Fetch http://www.schlueters.de/perl-pre0.1.tar.bz2 extract it to php-src/ext/ configure PHP using --with-perl=DIR were DIR is the location of perl.h and libperl.so (on my box, both are located at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux/CORE/). I didn't manage compiling it using phpize, I'd be glad if someone could help me with that. About me ======== Just a few sentences about the guy how has to much spare time: I'm a 21 year old student, living at Munich/Germany. I'm using computers since I'm 14 years old, my first PHP scripts are dated on April 25th, 2000. Now I'd like to get some comments on this thing here and mybe even some +1 for adding it to pear, a better documentation is in work, but the explainations above and the example script should help you out ;-) johannes