Re: first C prototype of PEAR and PEAR_Error

["yavo" <yavo@itena.com.cy>] > > I've rewritten the PEAR and PEAR_Error classes to C. Check out > > Hi stig, I had posted before of an idea to automate creation of C php > extentions from PEAR classes. Using somthing like phpdoc only to output C > instead of XML/HTML. The thing is however and this might sound kinda lame, > I'm not shure whether you can call other PHP functions in a PHP extentions. > Assuming I'm wring an extention, would I be able to call mysql_connect or > should I use the mysql libraies to do that. You can call mysql_connect from such libraries, but it will make sense to use a lower-level API than the Zend/PHP user-callable function API. A colleague and I discussed implementing a "PHP to C" compiler for PHP 3 once that was supposed to write C code and compile it in the background instead of executing it. Our conclusion was that it was too hairy. Doing it with PHP 4 should be easier though. The question is how much you would save with such a "PHP to C" converter. You'd need a lot of optimization in the converter to make its C code nearly as efficient as the one you'd write by hand (as with any compiler, really). If someone is capable of implementing it, please stand up. :-) - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway