Re: system_checks PECL extension proposal

If everyone agrees this is a good idea, I would be more than happy to implement it all as part of my extension. I looked into the links referenced below, and think it would be easy to incorporate all of those features into the extension. I started doing this extension because (as Wez mentioned) I was wanting to do runtime license checking, but after exploring further I found a lot of useful things which I could use in other projects if only they were available. This is one area which I feel PHP is lacking in (obtaining info about the system it's running on) and thus I would love to spearhead a project to add all of this into PHP (even if it remains in PECL and not incorporated into the core). -Jeremy On Sunday 06 June 2004 04:23 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > > > Funny you should mention this. After heading to bed this morning, I > > thought of almost the exact same thing (only difference was I was > > thinking sysident and not sysinfo). I actually also came up with about > > 5-10 more functions I think would be good to implement. Following along > > the lines of your sysinfo idea, I can probably come up with even more. I > > personally would love a cross platform way to do things like system load > > checking, available memory checking, etc. without resorting to expensive > > calls. Let me know what you think about this latter part, and I will > > revise my proposal. I personally would prefer to implement all of this in > > the extension instead of depending on an external third-party library of > > any sort, because I have found that requiring a certain library usually > > causes more trouble to maintain and get people to adopt. Hopefully you > > all agree that is the best approach. > > You could take a look at patSysinfo at > http://www.php-tools.net/patSysinfo (this is a PHP > implementation) Would > be great to provide the same features in your extension. gERD is > currently working on cross platform version, you can get the sources > from CVS: http://cvs.php-tools.net > > Stephan