Re: Fw: Re: [PECL-DEV] A Windows extension

Nice ! I do not have the time to do it for now and it's a missing part of it. Eric At 01:41 08/11/2003, Frank M. Kromann wrote:

-------- Original mail -------- From: Frank Kromann To: Wez Furlong <wez@thebrainroom.com> Subject: Re: [PECL-DEV] A Windows extension I have an extension that reads and writes regestry settings. Perhaps we can integrate the two ? - Frank

I'm about to end an extension that implement several standard Win32

API

function that is useful when using PHP as a Windows scripting

engine.

Sounds interesting :-) This can be added to PECL, provided you use a compatible license (check the archives for more on this!). I would suggest using the PHP license.

This extension feature: - res protocol read/write

Using streams?

- PHP thread support (already working - but need improvements)

I think that this is a losing battle (PHP just isn't designed to work that way). However, it would be cool if you can get something working. It would be better to have that effort put into the existing PECL threads package rather than a win32 extension.

- Any Win32 API function that users needs

I have written an ffi extension that will replace the current unmaintained and broken w32api (and also work on many other

platforms).

You can then load any win32 api at runtime without the need for (re)compiling and worrying about the versioning of your win32std extension. I don't think it is wise to wrap every win32 API known to man; using something like ffi for those is probably better, unless there is significant demand for having a PHP native version. --Wez. -- PECL development discussion Mailing List (http://pecl.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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