Re: Perl extension for PHP

you may want to look at http://www.apache.org/~dougm/php-perl.tar.gz which is something Doug MacEachern has written some time ago. On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 05:34:37AM -0400, George Schlossnagle wrote: > > On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 04:00 PM, Johannes Schlueter wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I used the last days to have a look at the ext/rpc stuff and it looks > >like a > >good way for writing a php-perl-Extension ;-) > >I also asked the author of the "perl-in-php" Extension if he wants to > >maintain > >his Extension any longer but he didn't answer, yet. > >during the next days/weeks/months I'll create a new Perl-Extension, > >based upon > >my old one and, maybe, parts of perl-in-php and the ext/rpc-skeleton. > > If you're interested in a hand - I'd be happy to help. Just to share > my ideas on how I would see this working (on php5 primarily). You > create a perl interpreter object with > > $p = new Perl; > > Then you can use/require files by > > $p->require("Foo::Bar"); > > or eval code with > > $p->eval("code"); > > but the real workhorse functionality would be through a method call > overloader so that you could say > > $retval = $p->myperlfunc($a,$b); > > where myperlfunc is a perl subroutine that you have seen in a > require/use/eval. (and of course $a, $b, and $retval are php variables > auto converted to and from perl types as needed). > > Possibly also Perl object handling. > > $obj = $p->new('Foo::Baz'); > > $retval = $obj->method() (same as $obj->method in Perl) > > and > > $retval = $obj->method (sam as $obj->{method} in Perl) > > In php5 at least, these goals should not be terribly difficult to > achieve. > > George > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Thies C. Arntzen - Looking for all sorts of freelance work - just ask.. http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/wishlist/AB9DY62QWDSZ