Extension proposal: epics

Hello, I work at the Berkeley National Lab, where we use EPICS (http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/index.php) as a control system for the Advanced Light Source (http://www.als.lbl.gov), among other systems. EPICS has been around for a while, and there is a PHP extension for it (http://epics.web.psi.ch/software/php-epics/), written by Alain Bertrand and Renata Krempaska. The original authors stopped development of php_epics in 2005, and have given me permission to take the reins. I'd like to submit it as a PECL extension and enhance its functionality. So far I have ensured it builds in 5.3.x, rearranged it a bit, and added documentation; future enhancements may include accepting arrays for channel names, adding a class definition, etc. Thanks, Bob Gunion