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

Public answer to Bertrand: I know it's not yet possible with php. But maybe someone here knew a solution - be it a pear/pecl-extension in-the-works or something ... or has already thought about writing such an extension. Pierre's answer what I was thinking of. Thanks for the quick reply Stefan On 11 Jan 2004 at 12:49, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > 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