Re: Where to start?

When I was writing the ssdeep extension I put together a list of resources that were very helpful to me whilst learning. Anyway they may help you: http://blog.simonholywell.com/post/1156691738/15-excellent-resources-for-php-extension-development Some of them are the same as Johannes' suggestions. On Feb 10, 2012 4:42 PM, "Johannes Schlüter" <johannes@schlueters.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 21:55 +0100, Ayoze Roberto Bernardo wrote: > > I've been reading this mail list for a time, and now I some ideas I want > to > > develop as a PHP extension... could anybody please tell me a point to > start > > developing one of them? > > First thing is having an idea and some motivation :-) > > for getting started, well there are different sources. first of all the > PHP source and looking at other PECL modules. Many functions in there > are quite trivial and learning the structure is quite useful as copying > from other extensions usually is a good way to solve issues. > > But well, starting from source is a bit complicated, so you probably > need something to read. Resources I suggest are > > http://php.net/internals2 > Work in progress manual > > > http://talks.somabo.de/200903_montreal_php_extension_writing.pdf > Slides about extending PHP > > Golemon, Sara: Extending and embedding PHP (ISBN 978-0672327049) > A book about this topic, from 5.2 times but still useful > > Once you have more precise questions feel free to ask here or join > #php.pecl on EFnet IRC. > > Hope that helps, > johannes > > > > -- > PECL development discussion Mailing List (http://pecl.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >