Re: Possible to load any dll's / shared objects with PHP?

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:13:39 +0100 "Stefan Neufeind" <stefan@neufeind.net> wrote: > Sorry if this has been asked before but: > I thought about using dll's (Windows) and shared-objects (Linux) in > PHP-programs. Is there a way to: > a) load such a library and > b) get function-pointers to be able to call functions stored in those > libs? > > Looking at the docs I found "dl" which seems to be restricted to php- > extensions. For windows the w32api-functions > (http://de2.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php) seem a solution - > although I hoped there was a similar interface for Linux / Windows so > you just had to exchange the name of the library but leave all > function-names etc. unchanged ... Wez is working on ffi (aka ext/dangerous). ffi is exactly what you need and is multiplatform. Find it pecl/ffi pierre