Re: Porting Extension to PHP7

On 24 July 2018 at 00:13, Johannes Findeisen <mailman@hanez.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Are there any good information somewhere on how to do porting right? A lot of information is here: https://wiki.php.net/phpng-upgrading > Is it possible to port it to PHP7 and stay PHP5 compatible? Yes, through the copious use of macros. The source for Imagick compiles against 5.3 to 7.3 with the use of macros https://github.com/mkoppanen/imagick The only parts that were difficult to do on a line-by-line level were the pieces of code that operate over arrays, where the code has changed so much it was easier to duplicate the whole functions, rather than wrapping individual lines in #ifdef's. I don't read this mailing list frequently - feel free to ping me on twitter if you have a specific question about a difficult bit https://twitter.com/MrDanack/ cheers Dan Ack