Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP3] Re: [PHP4BETA] Writing Apache modules in PHP

>John Coggeshall wrote: >> >> >reason. If you're talking about being able to write a module in PHP >> >instead of C then you should probably talk to the Apache guys. >> >> Wouldn't that be a great thing? If you could write apache modules in PHP? >> They wouldn't be half bad with the Zend Compiler, either! > >Does anyone know how Perl (mod_perl?) does it? Are the modules written >in Perl and then compiled into the server somehow? As I understand it (this is the cue for someone to explain in detail how I don't get it. <g> My involvement with the mod_perl source ended at the "./ configure; make; make install" level.), at a high level mod_perl does two things: 1) Allow the Perl interpreter to be embedded in the Apache process. (There are some non-trivial implementation details here) 2) Provide code for the normal C module hooks that calls Perl. The idea being that the Apache webserver doesn't need to treat mod_perl differently from other C modules since part of mod_perl is a regular C module that just happens to call Perl to do the actual work. I really like the idea of extending mod_php to provide functionality closer to mod_perl. You can do very interesting things with code that gets called that early in the request process and I think PHP would provide an easier means of doing so. -- # Chris Adams <chris@digitaria.com> (619)237-5552 # Technology Integration Specialist, Digitaria LLC