New extensions

Hi list, It's been a while since I've had time to do much PHP-related work, but I've recently found myself with all the time in the world, so I figured I might as well do something with it... I've had a couple of extensions kicking around for the past few years and I was previously hosting them on my own. However, the hosting situation has recently crumbled and I find myself in need of a way to let people continue to use the extensions I've written. I've considered PECL before and for whatever reason just kind of let it lapse, but given my current situation, it looks like the obvious place to keep the wares... I've got three extensions that would probably be useful to have in PECL at the moment, two that I have previously released a few years ago and one that I haven't gotten around to releasing for public consumption. They're all licensed under a BSD-style license and can be found at http://142.166.76.45/software/ cryptopp -- a strong cryptography extension based on the Crypto++ library (http://www.cryptopp.com/), which is a public domain library. The extension is sort of akin to mhash and mcrypt, although in my opinion it's a bit easier to use. It can perform things like hex/bin conversions, has an OO interface in PHP 5 and up and I think may be a bit easier for beginners to work with. This extension is written in C++, if that makes a difference, and was designed to be as cross-platform as I could make it. It's been tested on various linux distros, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OSX, Solaris and Windows 2000 and XP. Since PHP already has mhash and mcrypt, I can see why this extension would be passed over, but I thought I'd offer it anyway. Always nice to have alternatives, I guess. The extension is available at http://142.166.76.45/software/versions.php/cryptopp-php, and it's documentation is at http://142.166.76.45/software/cryptopp/cryptopp-php.html. This extension is moderately popular, judging by the download logs. stem -- an extension that provides word stemming, a la Porter-style suffix removal. In other words, feed it something like this: "kicked"; "kicking"; "kicks"; or "kickings" And it will return "kick", which is the common root of each word. Look up "Porter stemming" on Google or something if curiosity takes hold. The extension currently does 12 languages, including English, Finnish, French, German and more. It is based on the BSD-licensed Snowball library, available at http://snowball.sourceforge.net/. Word stemming is mostly useful in search engines and information retrieval mechanisms and that sort of thing. The extension is available at http://142.166.76.45/software/versions.php/stem-php. The other extension that I've been more or less sitting on is an extension based on id3lib, an LGPL'd library that can read and write ID3 tags as well as report general information on MPEG files and such. I know there's already an ID3 extension available in PECL, but I figured I might as well go for broke and put all three extensions on the block. It has a few more bells and whistles compared to the current ID3 extension, but unfortunately relies on id3lib, so it's give and take really. This extension is available at http://142.166.76.45/software/versions.php/id3-php. Frankly, the host that these things are on could go down at a moment's notice, so I apologize if anybody actually wants to check them out. If there's any interest in hosting any of the extensions, that would be cool. Otherwise, I guess I'll be looking for new hosting options... Cheers, J