Re: Extension documentation
| From: | John Coggeshall | Date: | Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:48:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Extension documentation | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pecl.dev |
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There isn't really any good documentation other than the code, a chapter
here or there in a few PHP books, and what you find online. This is very
outdated but is still relevant to get started with:
http://www.zend.com/zend/api.php
Cheers,
john
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 12:21 -0400, Andrew Teixeira wrote:
> Hello,
> One quick question I forgot to ask the other day when discussing the
> new extension I am trying to write. I have been looking for
> documentation either on PHP or the Zend engine as far as a tutorial or
> reference material on how to create PHP extensions. Of main interest
> is list of the functions/defines/macros used in writing extensions. I
> have found a couple of very useful sites, but nothing definitive that
> gives detailed API instructions or descriptions. To get my extension
> this far, I used the tutorial on Zend's website
> (http://www.zend.com/php/internals/extension-writing1.php), but it
> doesn't give me all the information I need. I know of the
> documentation in the standard PHP documentation describing the PHP and
> Zend API's, but it is not as complete as I would like. Maybe this is
> all PHP offers, but if anyone knows of anything more in depth, that
> would be helpful. Any nudges in the right direction would be much
> appreciated.
>