Zend API / PHP Internals Reference Manual

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Richard Lynch

20 years ago
I'm looking for a Reference Manual for the Zend API and/or PHP Internals. I've found about forty 'leven "how-to" and "learn by example" talks, slide-shows, tutorials, etc for writing a PHP extension. Don't get me wrong, these are great! But they leave me with questions about a bunch of macros and ton of code, and while I *can* read C source, and puzzle my way through it eventually, more or less, to some degree... Well, I'd be a whole lot better off if I found the moral equivalent of http://php.net/manual only for "Internals" Did I just miss it, or is it a pipe dream, or is it just not seen to be useful?
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Sara Golemon

20 years ago
http://lxr.php.net should help you with decoding all those macros. But if it's a reference you want: [plug]Extending and Embedding PHP: Available soon from Amazon.com and other fine retailers[/plug] A not-insignificant percentage of the appendices is made up of just this kind of API reference. Not to mention the meat of the book which covers the theory and pratice of using those API calls and macros. I don't have an exact release date yet, but soon, very very soon. -Sara ----- Original Message ----- From: ""Richard Lynch"" <ceo@l-i-e.com> Newsgroups: php.internals To: <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 4:03 PM Subject: Zend API / PHP Internals Reference Manual

Steph

20 years ago
and I'll also back Sara :) she's good. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sara Golemon" <pollita@php.net> To: <ceo@l-i-e.com> Cc: <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 2:32 AM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: Zend API / PHP Internals Reference Manual

Richard Lynch

20 years ago
I already know that. There's a 404 in the zend.com error_log, as of a half-hour ago, for the 3rd installment of her articles on writing extensions... :-) On Sun, April 16, 2006 10:15 pm, Steph Fox wrote:
> and I'll also back Sara :) she's good. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sara Golemon" <pollita@php.net> > To: <ceo@l-i-e.com> > Cc: <internals@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 2:32 AM > Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: Zend API / PHP Internals Reference Manual > > >> http://lxr.php.net should help you with decoding all those macros. >> >> But if it's a reference you want: [plug]Extending and Embedding >> PHP: >> Available soon from Amazon.com and other fine retailers[/plug] >> >> A not-insignificant percentage of the appendices is made up of just >> this >> kind of API reference. Not to mention the meat of the book which >> covers >> the theory and pratice of using those API calls and macros. I don't >> have >> an exact release date yet, but soon, very very soon. >> >> -Sara >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: ""Richard Lynch"" <ceo@l-i-e.com> >> Newsgroups: php.internals >> To: <internals@lists.php.net> >> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 4:03 PM >> Subject: Zend API / PHP Internals Reference Manual >> >> >>> I'm looking for a Reference Manual for the Zend API and/or PHP >>> Internals. >>> >>> I've found about forty 'leven "how-to" and "learn by example" >>> talks, >>> slide-shows, tutorials, etc for writing a PHP extension. Don't get >>> me >>> wrong, these are great! >>> >>> But they leave me with questions about a bunch of macros and ton of >>> code, and while I *can* read C source, and puzzle my way through it >>> eventually, more or less, to some degree... Well, I'd be a whole >>> lot >>> better off if I found the moral equivalent of http://php.net/manual >>> only for "Internals" >>> >>> Did I just miss it, or is it a pipe dream, or is it just not seen >>> to >>> be useful? >>> >>> -- >>> Like Music? >>> http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> >> __________ NOD32 1.1380 (20060125) Information __________ >> >> This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >> http://www.eset.com >> >> > >
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Steph

20 years ago
Please take this conversation off-list. There isn't a 3rd installment published on zend.com and you're using up a lot of bandwidth.

Steph

20 years ago
It's on the TODO. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> To: <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 1:03 AM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Zend API / PHP Internals Reference Manual

Richard Lynch

20 years ago
On Sun, April 16, 2006 10:15 pm, Steph Fox wrote:
> It's on the TODO.
Can I be the Village Idiot Editor that mis-reads everything in every way you couldn't have imagined? :-v
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Steph

20 years ago
Possibly... The last Zend API docs bash was when PHP 4.0 was released. Gabor (PHP Manual Editor) negotiated with Zend and got the docs under php.net jurisdiction as of last year. Hartmut has done some work there already, and I intend to complete it. But the original plan was to start last November. - Steph