Extending and Embedding PHP

ISBN: 067232704X
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2007
Pages: 175

Authors: Sara Golemon

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The PHP Life Cycle

• The PHP Life Cycle
• It All Starts with the SAPI
• Starting Up and Shutting Down
• Life Cycles
• Zend Thread Safety
• Summary

Variables from the Inside Out

• Data Types
• Data Values
• Data Creation
• Data Storage
• Data Retrieval
• Data Conversion
• Summary

Memory Management

• Memory
• Reference Counting
• Summary

Setting Up a Build Environment

• Setting Up a Build Environment
• Building PHP
• Configuring PHP for Development
• Compiling on UNIX
• Compiling on Win32
• Summary

Your First Extension

• Your First Extension
• Anatomy of an Extension
• Building Your First Extension
• Building Statically
• Functional Functions
• Summary

Returning Values

• Returning Values
• The return_value Variable
• Returning Values by Reference
• Summary

Accepting Parameters

• Accepting Parameters
• Automatic Type Conversion with zend_parse_parameters()
• Arg Info and Type-hinting
• Summary

Working with Arrays and HashTables

• Working with Arrays and HashTables
• Vectors Versus Linked Lists
• Zend Hash API
• zval* Array API
• Summary

The Resource Data Type

• The Resource Data Type
• Complex Structures
• Persistent Resources
• The Other refcounter
• Summary

PHP4 Objects

• PHP4 Objects
• The Evolution of the PHP Object Type
• Implementing Classes
• Working with Instances
• Summary

PHP5 Objects

• PHP5 Objects
• Evolutionary Leaps
• Methods
• Properties
• Interfaces
• Handlers
• Summary

Startup, Shutdown, and a Few Points in Between

• Startup, Shutdown, and a Few Points in Between
• Cycles
• Exposing Information Through MINFO
• Constants
• Extension Globals
• Userspace Superglobals
• Summary

INI Settings

• INI Settings
• Declaring and Accessing INI Settings
• Summary

Accessing Streams

• Accessing Streams
• Streams Overview
• Opening Streams
• Accessing Streams
• Static Stream Operations
• Summary

Implementing Streams

• Implementing Streams
• PHP Streams Below the Surface
• Wrapper Operations
• Implementing a Wrapper
• Manipulation
• Inspection
• Summary

Diverting the Stream

• Diverting the Stream
• Contexts
• Filters
• Summary

Configuration and Linking

• Configuration and Linking
• Autoconf
• Looking for Libraries
• Enforcing Module Dependencies
• Speaking the Windows Dialect
• Summary

Extension Generators

• Extension Generators
• ext_skel
• PECL_Gen
• Summary

Setting Up a Host Environment

• Setting Up a Host Environment
• The Embed SAPI
• Building and Compiling a Host Application
• Re-creating CLI by Wrapping Embed
• Reusing Old Tricks
• Summary

Advanced Embedding

• Advanced Embedding
• Calling Back into PHP
• Dealing with Errors
• Initializing PHP
• Overriding INI_SYSTEM and INI_PERDIR Options
• Capturing Output
• Extending and Embedding at Once
• Summary

Appendix A. A Zend API Reference

• Appendix A. A Zend API Reference
• Parameter Retrieval
• Classes
• Objects
• Exceptions
• Execution
• INI Settings
• Array Manipulation
• Hash Tables
• Resources/Lists
• Linked Lists
• Memory
• Constants
• Variables
• Miscellaneous API Function
• Summary

Appendix B. PHPAPI

• Appendix B. PHPAPI
• Core PHP
• Streams API
• Extension APIs
• Summary

Appendix C. Extending and Embedding Cookbook

• Appendix C. Extending and Embedding Cookbook
• Skeletons
• Code Pantry
• Summary

Appendix D. Additional Resources

• Appendix D. Additional Resources
• Open Source Projects
• Summary