Re: PHP7 extension documentation

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Ruslan Osmanov <rrosmanov@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > AFAIK, there is only UPGRADING.INTERNALS file at the root of php-src. > Also, almost the same thing published online: > https://wiki.php.net/phpng-upgrading > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:35:40 +0100 > Giuseppe Chiesa <mail@giuseppechiesa.it> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm one of the maintainers of BLENC PECL extension. I would like to > > port that extension to PHP7, and improve it a bit, making it > > compatible with other opcode caching extensions and adding some new > > features. The problem is that I cannot find any up to date > > documentation about Zend internals API and I don't have much time now > > to dig into the Zend code and try to figure out how the APIs should > > work. > > > > Is that possible that the latest good resource for implementing PECL > > extension is the "Extending and Embedding PHP (Developer's Library)" > > (from 2006)? > > It's 10 years ago. > There is also http://www.phpinternalsbook.com/ which is written for PHP 5 but more recent than Saras book. Regarding PHP 7, my best help was the various branches and diffs for other extensions that added PHP 7 support to the extensions. There are tons of good ideas about abstractions, for example introducing zend_string for PHP 5 for compatibility and others. But you have to poke around Github to find ideas there. greetings Benjamin > > > > I'm a bit disappointed for this lack of documentation and that also > > stops me from trying to improve existing code. > > > > If you have some new resource, related to the latest PHP and Zend > > Internals please share it here. > > > > Thank you, > > Giuseppe Chiesa > > > > > > > -- > Ruslan Osmanov > > -- > PECL development discussion Mailing List (http://pecl.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >