By request, a quick post on using PHP references in extensions. To start, here’s an example of references in PHP we’ll be translating into C: <?php // just for displaying output function display($x) { echo "x is $x\n"; } // pass in an argument by making a copy of it function not_by_ref($arg) { [...]
This is the final section of a 4-part series on writing PHP extensions. Setting Up PHP – compiling PHP for extension development Hello, world! – your first extension Working with the API – the PHP C API Classes – creating PHP objects in C Objects branch: oop This section will cover creating objects. Objects are [...]
This is section 3 of a 4-part introduction to PHP extensions: Setting Up PHP – compiling PHP for extension development Hello, world! – your first extension Working with the API – the PHP C API Classes – creating PHP objects in C This section is, unfortunately, longer than all of the other sections combined. The [...]
This is part 2 of a 4-part tutorial on writing PHP extensions: Setting Up PHP – compiling PHP for extension development Hello, world! – your first extension Working with the API – the PHP C API Classes – creating PHP objects in C First we need to think of a name for our extension. I’ve [...]
A PHP extension allows you to connect almost any C/C++ code you want to PHP. This is a 4-part tutorial on how to write an extension: Setting Up PHP – compiling PHP for extension development Hello, world! – your first extension Working with the API – the PHP C API Classes – creating PHP objects [...]
Interested in learning more about scaling MongoDB? Pick up September’s issue of PHP|Architect magazine, the database issue! I wrote an article on scaling your MongoDB database: how to choose good indexes, help handle load using replication, and set up sharding correctly (it’s not PHP-specific). If you prefer multimedia, I also did an O’Reilly webcast on [...]
Version 1.0.3 was released today. Everyone should upgrade because there were some weird bugs in 1.0.2 due to a half-complete feature that was added in 1.0.2 and has since been removed. Unfortunately, because I’ve had to bump up the release date, the big feature that was scheduled for 1.0.3, asynchronous queries, has been pushed to [...]
Want to learn more about MongoDB? Here’s the places I’ll be speaking in the next month or so: January 13th – DC PHP Meeting (http://www.dcphp.net/) January 19th – New York Perl Mongers Seminar (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perlsemny/) January 25th – Long Island PHP User Group (http://www.liphp.org/) February 7th – FOSDEM – Free and Open Source Developers European Meetup [...]
I’ve just added a feature to the Mongo PHP driver (and I plan to add it to the Perl driver soon) to use a character other than $ for special ops. In Mongo, there are tons of interesting things you can do by using $-prefixed strings: // run a server-side function as part of a [...]
I started a wiki on this site (http://www.kchodorow.com/php) to write down all the stuff I learn about writiing PHP extensions. If anyone else has experience with them, feel free to add or edit articles. Some basics: a PHP extension is written in C. In fact, PHP itself is written in C, so there’s a lot [...]
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